Place:Kemeys Inferior, Monmouthshire, Wales

source: Family History Library Catalog

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Kemeys Inferior (Welsh:Cemais) from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"KEMEYS-INFERIOR, a parish in Newport [registration] district, Monmouth[shire]: on the river Usk, 3 miles NE of Caerleon, and 4 N by E of Llanwern [railway] station. Post town: Caerleon, under Newport, Monmouth. Acres: 1,676. Real property: £1,689. Population: 122. Houses: 22. The property is divided among a few. More than a third of the area is woodland. Stone for paving and for roofing is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff. Value: £130. Patron: the Rev. W. Risley. The church is good."

The hamlets of Kemeys Commander and Kemeys Inferior formed part of the Monmouthshire estates of the Knights Templar. The Templars administered their holdings through "commandry", accounting for the name of the other hamlet. A reference to a church on the site dates from the 13th century, but the present building at Kemeys Commander was constructed in the 15th century. The Lordship of Kemeys dates from the Middle Ages and was held by the Kemeys family until the estate was sold in the early 18th century. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kemeys Inferior is several miles north of Kemeys Commander. It can be found on Google Maps.

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