The parish of

CROWAN

The Online Parish Clerk for Crowan is Sue Crispin, 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, FreeCen 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:

For Parish Register information, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently and GenUKI. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see the University of Leicester's Historical Directories website and GenUKI.

OTHER:

A partial Voters List for 1832 is available here.

Some photographs of gravestones are available from the OPC, click here for a list. Some lo-res examples link from the list.

To view the transcription of a Bastardy Order, dated 23 Mar 1841, naming Elizabeth WOOLCOCK, Thomas MATTHEWS and Thomas MATTHEWS of this parish, click here.

To view a transcription of the Will of John EUSTIS, dated 15 Aug 1692, click here.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Crowan can be located at coordinates D - 2. 

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:

St Erth, Gwinear, Treslothan (post 1845), Carnmenellis (Post-1846), Wendron, Sithney and Godolphin (post-1848).

ONLINE BOOKS:

Crowan 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 n300). Also downloadable as a pdf.