The parish of

ST ALLEN

Although it has never been a large parish, nowadays, long after the closure of the mines, St Allen comprises only a few houses. In its hey-day, around 1871, the parish comprised 774 inhabitants and provided the home for miners working at East Wheal Rose, just across the border in the neighbouring parish of St Newlyn East. One of Cornwall’s greatest 19th Century tragedies occurred on 9 July 1846: a flash storm flooded East Wheal Rose, with the loss of thirty-nine men, many of whom were residents of, and buried in, St Allen. You can read about the flood and its victims here, together with a note from the St Allen Burial Register. The registers for the parish church of St Allen (or St Alunus) date from 1680, but by 1873 the Wesleyan Methodists and Bible Christians had established their chapels in Zelah, a hamlet within the parish. Like many other nonconformist religions, they operated preaching circuits, and many of Zelah’s Wesleyan Baptisms were recorded in the St Newlyn East or Truro circuit registers. Similarly, many of the Bible Christian records for St Allen residents are found in Truro Bible Christian registers.

Hawkins Arms, 2002,© Steven Beazley

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for St Allen is Blanche Charles, who can be contacted by Email.
 
(For information about, and contact details for, the current parish council, please see this website.)

I am currently transcribing St. Allen Parish registers (1680-1900) and am uploading them to my OPC pages. Where the records are not online, look-ups are available from the resources you will find listed on the site.
 
Many of our Cornish forebears eagerly embraced Nonconformist faiths, particularly Wesleyan Methodism. St Newlyn East Wesleyan Circuit incorporated many baptisms from Zelah, St Allen and I have transcribed the baptism register (1838 – 1899). While it is not yet online, I can offer lookups.
 
Census coverage (1841 - 1891) is available for St Allen and the links to full transcriptions, plus the census index for 1851, can be found on my website.
 
Please explore my website or contact me for assistance. I don't promise to do your research for you, but I will do my best to assist with your queries. I hope that you will find the pages useful. Happy hunting!

Blanche

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP - the Cornwall Online Census Project - which is complete for 1841 to 1891 and has been verified, FreeCens at Rootsweb, which has a very good search engine and information from COCP, as well as GenUKI, which has more reference information and alternate resources.

My transcription of the 1851 Census Index is available on my website, along with links to the other online census resources for the parish and I can provide look-ups from the 1861 census.

REGISTERS:

The deposited Parish Registers for St Allen cover the period from 1680 to the 20th century and have been filmed by the LDS. I have begun transcribing them and uploading the transcriptions to my website. In the meantime, I provide a look-up service for records which are not online.

The LDS Church batch numbers for St Allen are: C0553431, P006361. These are searchable by surname. The IGI coverage of this parish is 1611 - 1875; it is NOT believed to be fully covered in the LDS Church's online International Genealogical Index (IGI) at Family Search.

For further Parish Register information, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently and GenUKI (link below).

DIRECTORIES:

My St Allen Resource Page includes transcriptions of 1873 & 1893 Trade Directories for the parish and lists my additional holdings. Further Trade Directories for Cornwall can be searched online here.

OTHER:

My OPC website lists a number of different resources, many of them outlined above, but there are others – including historical resources available for look-ups - so please visit! Also incorporated in my site are links of information pertaining to the History, Population, Statistics etc., for St Allen.

As always, additional information can be found on the Cornwall section of GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St. Allen can be located at coordinates E - 4.

For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).

To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit MultiMap, or for maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Perranzabuloe, Newlyn East, St Erme, St Clement and Kenwyn.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. St Allen is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume I by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page n54). Also downloadable as a pdf.
2. The Cornwall Register by John Wallis, A.M. F.S.S., then Vicar of Bodmin, printed 1847. If the in-built search produces no results, use the index pages (474-476) to find your parish of interest. Tables of statistics and other data can be found at the beginning of the book, starting at page n9.
3. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XVIII transcripts including St Allen (transcribed and in our database). For the Contents page, keep clicking Next until page 7/160 appears.