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The parish of

BLISLAND

Blisland
Blisland Parish Church
© David Coppin

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Blisland is Kay Halley, who can be contacted by Email.

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.

REGISTERS:

For Parish Register information and other resources, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP), which is updated frequently, and GenUKI. The parish coverage page for C-PROP is here.

DIRECTORIES:

Trade Directories for Cornwall can be searched online here. For other information, see GenUKI.

OTHER:

Voters Lists:

  1. 1851/52
  2. 1853/54
  3. 1864/65

Legal Documents:

  1. 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
  2. A Court Bastardy Order, dated 12 Jan 1774 and naming John ARNOLD of this Parish.
  3. The Will of Robert LEAN, dated 26 Sep 1853.
  4. An Indenture, dated 28 Sep 1863 but mentioning earlier agreements by John TREISE of this Parish.

Other documents mentioning several parishes, including Blisland, can be found here.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Blisland can be located at coordinates E - 3.

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 Mabyn, St Breward, Altarnun (pre-1849), Bolventor (post-1849), Temple, Cardinham and Helland.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Blisland 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 n100). Also downloadable as a pdf.