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The parish of

ST CLEMENT

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for St. Clement is Gillian Hart, who can be contacted by Email.

For information about, and contact details for, the current parish council please see this website.

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:

For Parish Register information, see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently or GenUKI. Link below.

DIRECTORIES:

See the University of Leicester's Directories website, which has many directories online to view for free, or GenUKI (link below).

OTHER:

Bastardy/Filiation Docimentss:

These usually name the local Justices of the Peace, Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, as well as those people mentioned below.

  10 Jan 1703, Elizabeth PENROSE 1 Mar 1784, Mary ENDEAN & James HAWKEY
  Dec 1704, Jane HARRIS, William DAVIES & Richard HARRIS 16 Nov 1784, Mary THOMAS
  7 Jan 1727, Mary RUNDLE, Nicholas CROW(E)S & John SPRY 28 Nov 1784, Jenefer Dingle HEAD
  3 Oct 1741, Elizabeth TRENGROWSE 12 Dec 1785, Jenefer WEB
  1 Oct 1742, Patience WATTS 31 Jan 1786, Ann PEARCE
  3 May 1743, Blanch ROBERTS 30 Jul 1787, Ann BEARD, William GATLEY & Thomas GATLEY
  13 Aug 1746, Alice KNEEBONE 16 Oct 1789, Phillis WILLIAMS & David WILLIAMS
  11 Mar 1752, Alice KNEEBONE 2 Mar 1791, PHILLIS WILLIAMS
  21 Jul 1752, Catherine RAWLING 2 Dec 1793, Martha RALPH & John WRIGHT
  13 May 1758, Mary HEAD 14 Apr 1794, Sarah LAWRANCE & Joseph BEARD
  1 Sep 1777, Margaret MAY, John & John VERCOE the younger 11 Jun 1795, Mary MAY, widow
  11 Jun 1779, William SIMS 13 Jan 1796, Martha RALPH, Saml. THOMAS & John WRIGHT junr
  28 Oct 1781, Jane HEAD 7 Dec 1799, Elizabeth MENEER, John CROWL & Peter MARK
  5 Dec 1781, Phillippa/Phillis CLEMOW, Edward & James GIDDY 19 Nov 1804, Priscilla MORGAN
  27 Mar 1782, Elizabeth HARRIS, John HORE 4 Jan 1809, naming Richard COKE
  17 Sep 1783, Elizabeth HARRIS & John HOARE  

Other Documents:

  1. an Indemnity Order from the Parish of St Clements to the Borough of Truro, dated 1 Apr 1772, regarding contributions to the upkeep of the Poorhouse.

Settlement Papers:

  25 Mar 1756, Charity LANG---? (& Probus) 23 Jun 1842 - 7 Apr 1847, the BARTLE family (& Budock)
  3 Sep 1764, Richard TREHARE & family (& Luxulyan) 1 Mar 1773, Elizabeth & Jenefer RICHARDS (& Probus) 
  3 Feb 1817, William SEARLE (& Probus)  

Wills:

  29 Aug 1740, Robert ROBINS 28 Dec 1876, William CRAGOE
  5 Sep 1749, John MOORE  

For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a zoomable and printable map of Cornwall please visit Cornwall Council’s mapping website. To see the Parish boundaries, click on the Layers Tab for Government Boundaries.

For maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

To enjoy a "walk" around this parish, search for St Clement Cornwall at http://maps.google.co.uk/, then drag the person icon from above the zoom commands and place it at a specific location on the map.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Kenwyn, Truro, Kea, St Michael Penkevil, Merther, St Erme and St Allen.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. St Clement 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 n242). Also downloadable as a pdf.
  2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XXVI transcripts including St Clement (transcribed and in our database). For the Contents page, keep clicking Next until page 7/218 appears.