<heading>What is the BillionGraves App Headstone Collection?</heading>The BillionGraves App Headstone Collection contains photos of gravestones taken by volunteers with the BillionGraves app in cemeteries around the world. The names, dates, and other information have been transcribed and are searchable.Each gravestone photo has been tagged with GPS coordinates and the locations are plotted on a cemetery map.<heading>What genealogical data can I learn from the BillionGraves App Headstone Collection?</heading>The BillionGraves App Headstone Collection records may include:<ul><li>First name</li><li>Last name</li><li>Age at Death</li><li>Spouse</li><li>Gender</li><li>Occupation</li><li>Names and relationships of family members</li><li>Clubs, hobbies, organizations, and interests</li><li>Religion</li><li>Burial Location and Cemetery</li><li>Military Information</li><li>Birthplace or Country of Origin</li></ul>The BillionGraves App Headstone Collection also shows nearby gravestones. Since 70% of people are buried in family plots, this can reveal even more family relatives.<heading>What years does it cover?</heading>The BillionGraves App Headstone Collection spans from about 1600 to the current day.

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Over 92,000 residents of the Rhondda Valley are interred in this peaceful and well maintained hillside plot overlooking Trealaw, including some 160 casualties of the First and Second World Wars.  
The transformation of the Rhondda Valley from an agricultural landscape in the first half of the 19th century to one containing more than 75 collieries in 1893 was a rapid one. Mirrored by population growth (951 in 1851 to 55,632 in 1881)as in many urban areas, it became clear that graveyards of churches and chapels alike were at capacity. In response to this crisis, a series of Burial Acts commencing in 1853, authorized the provision of Municipal Cemeteries by local authorities and in 1881 a parcel of land known as Llethr Du was purchased. 
Trealaw Cemetery Chapel was built in 1882 by architect H Jenkins and Contractor Hopkin Knill. It is built in the Gothic style in rock-faced sandstone with a Welsh slate roof.(Late drawing show a spire in place of the present pyramidal roof). Trealaw Cemetery Chapel is now Grade 2 Listed

Over 92,000 residents of the Rhondda Valley are interred in this peaceful and well maintained hillside plot overlooking Trealaw, including some 160 casualties of the First and Second World Wars.
The transformation of the Rhondda Valley from an agricultural landscape in the first half of the 19th century to one containing more than 75 collieries in 1893 was a rapid one. Mirrored by population growth (951 in 1851 to 55,632 in 1881)as in many urban areas, it became clear that graveyards of churches and chapels alike were at capacity. 

In response to this crisis, a series of Burial Acts commencing in 1853, authorized the provision of Municipal Cemeteries by local authorities and in 1881 a parcel of land known as Llethr Du was purchased. 

Trealaw Cemetery Chapel was built in 1882 in the Gothic style in rock-faced sandstone with a Welsh slate roof. Trealaw Cemetery Chapel is now Grade 2 Listed

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