The parish of

BLISLAND

The Online Parish Clerk for Blisland is Sharon Symons, 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:

Our searchable database (C-PROP) is updated frequently and contains full transcriptions. For further Parish Register information, please see GenUKI - link below.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

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.