The parish of
ALTARNUN
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is in the Hundred of Lesneweth, in the deanery of
Trigg-major and is eight miles west of Launceston. The name means Altar [church
altar] of St Nonna. Altarnun Parish is now in the North Cornwall district and
part of it lies within Bodmin Moor. The south-west area of Altarnun parish
became part of the newer parish of Bolventor.
Altarnun can truly be described as one of the
prettiest villages in Cornwall. Across two bridges stands the Church of
St. Nonna. The Normans built a church here in the 12th century, but the
church as it now stands was built in the 15th century, and was partly
constructed of unquarried stone from the moors.
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Church of St. Nonna,
© Simon Lewis, 2001
As this area is so picturesque, tourism is now a major industry.
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Village of Altarnun © 2002, Simon Lewis |
By the church gate stands a fine Celtic cross,
possibly dating back to the 6th century, the time of St. Nonna herself.
She was the mother of St. David and left her native Wales around the
year 527.
The parish is mainly moorland, and grazed by animals, but there are areas
of farmland in the Eastern areas. The river Lynher rises in this parish.
The principal villages in this parish are the churchtown, more properly called
Penpont, Tredaule, Five Lanes, Gunnon, Treveage, West Carne, Trethyn, Treween,
and Trewint. At Five Lanes, large cattle fairs once were held.
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The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Altarnun is Mike Gabriel, who
can be contacted by Email.
(For information about, and contact details for, the current parish
council, please see
this website.)
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,
FreeCen 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.
REGISTERS:
Information can be found in our searchable database (C-PROP),
which is updated frequently and contains full transcriptions. The C-PROP coverage page is here.
The LDS batch numbers for Altarnun are: C053311,
E006241, E053311, M006241, M053311, P006241; the records are searchable by surname. Coverage of this parish
is 1610 - 1875.
DIRECTORIES:
Trade
Directories for Cornwall can be searched online
here. For
other information, see
GenUKI.
OTHER:
Many of the items below also mention Parish officials such
as Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor:-
An agreement, involving a dispute over land in the
parishes of Altarnun and Blisland,
dated
1661 or 1662, naming Daniel and Getrude WILLS, Joseph and Margaret
TOKER. Apprenticeship Indentures:
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25
Jun 1752, Thomas SMITH to William NOTTLE |
3 Apr
1780, William SAUNDERCOCK to Charles GINN |
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4
Jun 1757, James VENNING to Katherine LAWS |
3 Jun 1782,
Jennifer WADGE to Richard BURDEN |
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4
Feb 1760, John MITCHELL to Robart NOTTLE |
24 Apr
1783, William STEPHENS to William NICHOLLS |
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7
Jan 1765, George STEVENS to Richard TINNER |
11 Aug
1783, Elizabeth MITCHELL to Richard SLOGGETT |
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29 Apr 1765, Joseph DOWNING to George VENNING |
12 Jul
1784, Mary COUMBE to Benjamin GABRIEL |
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2
Feb 1770, Elizabeth HENDER to John WILLIAMS |
18 May 1785,
Joseph BRAY to Thomas WHALE |
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8
Sep 1772, Dorothy HERRING to Henry HOSKIN |
11
Apr 1787, Elizabeth BOUNDY to John PETHICK |
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8
Sep 1772, Elizabeth HERRING to Charles GIN |
13 Oct
1789, William DOWNING to William WEVILL |
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8
Sep 1772, Mary HENDER to Christopher EDGCOMBE |
6 May
1794, Joseph DOWNING to George VENNING |
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8
Sep 1772, Moses STEPHENS to George VENNING |
6
May 1794, Mary GABRIEL to Joseph DUNN |
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29
Apr 1773, Grace JASPER to John POPLESTONE |
6 May 1794,
John COOK to Daniel VENNING |
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29
Apr 1773, John JASPER to Thomas NICHOLS |
6 May
1794, John HERRING to John HERRING |
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27
Apr 1774, Mary HERRING to John DENNIS |
7 Apr
1795, Joseph GABRIEL to Thomas WESTLAKE |
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23
Jan 1776, Mary HARFOOT to Philip COOMBE |
26 Apr
1797, Elizabeth DOWNING to John BROWN |
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10
Apr 1776, Richard WHALE to John VENNING |
24 Apr
1800, Mary NORTHY to Arthur PETER |
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30 May
1777, Mary BATH to Jonathan HARVEY |
16
Apr 1821, Richard SPEAR to William STEPHENS |
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8 Sep
1777, Ann SLEEP to Henry CORAM |
7
Oct 1822, John DENNIS to Edmund Herring LAFFER |
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4 May
1778, Elizabeth WADGE to Charles BURNETT |
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Bastardy/Filiation Documents:
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16 Jun 1755, Jone MARK, Antoney,
Robert and William GIMBLET |
31 May 1796, Catherine BURNARD & Charles HERRING |
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30 Jul 1760, Geare
BASTARD, Arthur, William and Richard HERRING |
19
Jun 1797, Ann SLEEP & Charles JENKINS |
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30 Jun 1764, Charity MATTHEW, Walter & Edward OKE |
25 Jul 1825,
Mary ROWE |
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19
Sep 1765, Grace COCK, William & Benjamin GABRIEL |
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Voters Lists:
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1851/52
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1852/53
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1856/57
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1864/65
Wills:
War Memorial:
MAPS:
For a zoomable and printable map of Cornwall please visit
Cornwall Council’s mapping website. To see the Parish
boundaries, click on the Layers Tab for Government Boundaries.
For maps and satellite
images use Google Maps.
To enjoy a "walk" around this parish, search for Altarnun at
http://maps.google.co.uk/, then
drag the person icon from above the zoom commands and place it at a
specific location on the map.
ADJACENT PARISHES:
St Breward, Davidstow,
St Clether, Laneast,
Trewen, Lewannick,
North
Hill, St Cleer, Bolventor (post-1847) and
St Neot (pre-1847).
ONLINE BOOKS:
- Altarnun 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 n60). Also downloadable as a pdf.
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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.
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Venning's New Century Postal Directory of 20 Parishes in East Cornwall,
published 1901. Included several pages of advertisements from local
businesses, as well as being a parish directory
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