Boyton or Boieton may be from the Cornish or French words for wood or forest, which agrees well with the situation of the parish. It lies a few miles north of Launceston and just to the west of the Devon border that runs along the River Tamar. There are a number of villages with this name in England.
Like many Cornish parishes it existed before the Domesday Book recorded
it. The owners of the land, the Abbots of Tavistock, lost it to the Earl
of Mortain, William the Conqueror's brother and the chief Norman in
Cornwall after the Conquest. The church is still in use today and is
dedicated to The Holy Name.
Indexed transcriptions from the parish registers from 1568 to 1876 are in the IGI.
The Online Parish Clerk for Boyton is Angela Wood, who may be reached via Email.
Information can be found at COCP - the Cornwall Online Census Project - which is regularly updated 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.
Please click here to see a list of persons on the St. Agnes Wesleyan Tablet Mural - 3 columns long.
For further Parish Register information, please see GenUKI - link below.
For information, see GenUKI. Link below.
For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.
For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Boyton can be located at coordinates J - 8.
For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).
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