CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

CAMBORNE

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Camborne is Sally Cann, who is currently unavailable but who has a website containing much information - transcriptions, history, and other data.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Please visit COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project), which is complete for 1841 to 1891 and validated, FreeCens at Rootsweb - both are free, searchable databases - or check GenUKI for other alternatives.

REGISTERS:

Please visit my website, as I have transcribed many parish registers. Please also see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently.  The C-PROP coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

Please contact me for details. or visit the University of Leicester's Directories website, which has many directories online to view for free.

OTHER:

The 1832 Voters List for the parish.

To view a Bastardy Bond, dated 21 Jul 1752, naming John MITCHELL of Cambourn, click here.

Settlement Documents:

  15 Mar 1729, Elizabeth BELMAN (& Probus) 2 Feb 1767, Peter JACKSON & family (& Probus)

Wills:

  30 Jun 1724, John DANIEL(L) 5 Apr 1746, Mary SPRY
  25 Sep 1741, James STEPHENS 13 Jun 1748, Henry EVA
  4 Mar 1745, Richard BENNATS 4 Jan 1879, John BAWDEN

I have books and other reference information available for lookups.

MAPS:

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

For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).

To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, visit MultiMap, or for maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Gwinear, Gwithian, Penponds (post-1854), Illogan, Tuckingmill (post-1845), Treslothan (post-1845) and Crowan (pre-1845). Many other parishes in the Camborne-Redruth area have close connections.

SUGGESTED READING:

Victorian and Edwardian Camborne, through the "eyes" of the camera 1850 - 1920. Compiled by J. Arthur Osborne and David H. Thomas, originally published in 1986 and printed by Century Litho, Falmouth.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Camborne 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 n200). Also downloadable as a pdf.
  2. The Circle, or Historical Survey of Sixty Parishes and Towns in Cornwall, by William Penaluna, first published in 1819.
  3. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XIX transcripts including Camborne (transcribed and in our database).