The parish of

CAMBORNE

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.

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.