CREED with GRAMPOUND

is situated in the Hundred of Powder, and is bounded by St. Stephens in Brannel, St. Mewan, Probus, and St. Ewe. At the time of the Norman Conquest, it was known as Tybesta, and held the jurisdiction of a court leat, and a court baron for the Hundred.

Principal dwelling places are Grampound (Grandpont), Trevellick, Trencreek, Trewinnow, and Pennance. Pennance, in the 1800's, slowly faded, but retained 'memorials of departed grandeur'; when the highway between St. Austell and Truro was built, it cut across a fine avenue of trees which lead from the mansion to the adjoining valley. A brick arch was constructed over the turnpike, so the residents could pass uninterruptedly. This arch, unfortunately, was taken down in the late 1800's.

This is considered to be 'a good agricultural parish'.

The volunteer as OPC (Genealogy) for Creed with Grampound is John Evans, 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, as well as other resources. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here. For further Parish Register information, please see GenUKI.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Settlement Papers:

Wills:

Miscellaneous Data:

1. Late 19th. Century, newspaper cuttings about (1) Hale Boate Rocke & (2) the condition of Creed Churuch
2. 26 Dec 1885, consecration of additional burial ground

As always, additional information can be found in the Cornwall section of GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Creed can be located at coordinates G - 4.

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:

Probus, St Stephen in Brannel, St Ewe and Cuby.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Creed 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 n290). Also downloadable as a pdf.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XXVI transcripts including Creed (with Grampound) (transcribed and in our database). For the Contents page, keep clicking Next until page 7/218 appears.