The parish of
ST ANTHONY in MENEAGE
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Not to be confused with Antony on the Cornish/Devon
border or St Anthony in Roseland on the Roseland Peninsula.
St Anthony-in-Meneage has also been called St Anthony-in-Kerrier. It is situated
in the deanery and Hundred of Kerrier, near to the mouth of the Helford River,
overlooking Gillan Harbour.
Other parishes nearby are Manaccan, St Martin
Meneage, St Keverne, St Mawgan Meneage.
The area of the parish is mainly farmland with a number of small villages and
hamlets.
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The church in the hamlet of St Anthony in
Meneage © Simon Lewis
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The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for St Anthony in Meneage is Diane Donohue,
who can be contacted by Email.
(For information about, and contact details for, the current parish
council, please see
this website.)
PARISH INFORMATION
CENSUS:
Please visit
COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project), which is almost complete for 1841
to 1891 and validated, FreeCens
at Rootsweb - both are free, searchable databases - or check GenUKI for
other alternatives.
REGISTERS:
Transcripts completed are Burials 1597-1901, Bapt 1841-1905, Mges 1597-1905.
Full transcriptions are available for look-ups by the OPC or in our database
search at
http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/, which is updated frequently and
contains full transcriptions.
The LDS Church batch numbers for St Anthony-in-Meneage
are: C053441, C0066222/3. These are index-only and searchable by surname. The IGI coverage
of this parish is 1597 - 1875.
More information on the parish can be found on West Country Genealogy -
http://www.westcountrygenealogy.com/.
For further Parish Register information, please see GenUKI.
DIRECTORIES:
For information, see the University of
Leicester's website of Historical Directories
or
GenUKI.
OTHER:
The
1834 Voters List for this parish.
For more information regarding history, population,
etc., visit GenUKI.
MAPS:
For a Parish Locator map, please click
here. St. Anthony in Meneage is
located at coordinates E - 2.
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:
St
Keverne, Manaccan and, across the estuary,
Mawnan.
ONLINE BOOKS:
- St Anthony in Meneage (St Anthony in Kerrier) 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 n78). Also downloadable as a pdf.
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The Circle, or Historical Survey of Sixty Parishes and Towns in Cornwall,
by William Penaluna, first published in 1819.
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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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Phillimore's Marriages Vol
XX transcripts including St Anthony in Meneage
(transcribed and in our
database). For the Contents page, keep clicking Next until page 7/159
appears.
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