Quaker Meeting House (Tref y Rhyg, Llantrisant)

The Quaker Meeting House (Ty Cwrdd y Crynwyr) was built on a small plot of land next to Treferig Isaf farm, Heol Ddu, near Llantrisant, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, United Kingdom. There are many alternate spellings of Tref yr Rhyg that can be seen in various books and Quaker records including Treferig, Treverrig, Treverygg. John Bevan (1636–1728) initially held illegal meetings of The Society of Friends (known as Quakers) in Treferig; the farm that he had inherited. He gifted the ground for the Meeting house in 1682 and built the small two storey building with a thatched roof. It had a small adjoining burial ground. The Meeting House is now a ruin and one memorial stone remains in the grounds. John Bevan and his wife Barbara Awbrey (1637–1710) bought land in Pennsylvania and emigrated there in July 1683 with their family and over 20 followers on the ship 'Morning Star. In 1704 John Bevan, his wife Barbara and one of their daughters, Barbara; returned to Treferig. Richard Allen notes that the emigration of the Bevan's to Pennsylvania had a major impact on Quakerism in South Wales. He quotes Tref Y Rhyg meeting records in 1683; 'We... hereby sertifie... that great loss we and others have sustained in the removal of our deare friends John ap Bevan [sic] and Barbarah his wife.... both belonging to this Meeting, with their tender family in Pennsylvania.... And further we do cer

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