The parish of

ST DOMINICK

St Dominick Church © Myra Cordrey

St Dominick Parish is a rural area, with a total population which has not exceeded a thousand people. It is mainly agricultural (grazing land and market gardening) but still shows evidence of its part in the mining boom of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Kit Hill and its surrounding mining remains are not far to the north west. St Dominick village is the main settlement, with groups of houses at Bohetherick, Burraton, Cross, Halton Quay and Ashton, the last two being mentioned in the Domesday Survey. There are also numerous individual houses/farms. Halton Quay flourished in the days before the advent of rail and mechanised road transport, as one of the points at which lime and 'street sweepings' (manure) came in from Plymouth, and fruit and flowers were sent down the Tamar. Photographs of the Quay are on the OPC's website.

View of the Village from St Dominick Church © Myra Cordrey

Today the parish has many new houses, the residents of some being commuters. Bed and Breakfast accommodation and a few ancient 'pubs' serve the tourist industry and many of the old cottages have been renovated and extended. However the road layout has not changed much over the years, single tracks, with passing places and high hedges alongside, being the norm. The small, steep valleys provide challenges for people on foot, but also sheltered areas for isolated buildings. Like most of the surrounding area, it was/is often the case that residents of St Dominick lived closer to the Church of a different Parish, so it is worthwhile for researchers to look through records for Callington, Calstock, Pillaton and St Mellion.

The Online Parish Clerk for St Dominick is Myra Cordrey, who can be contacted by Email.

Please visit my website, where I have parish information, transcriptions of records and many more photographs.

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, for 1881, the LDS website.

REGISTERS:

While many parish registers have been transcribed by the LDS, and are available in their IGI section, they are indexes only. (Baptisms in the IGI are from 1585 - 1875, marriages from 1588 - 1718). For full transcriptions, please visit my website, which is updated frequently.
 
Additionally, all transcriptions have been added to our searchable database (C-PROP), which is updated frequently. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Please visit my website for Newspaper Articles, Indentures and Bastardy / Filiation Bonds.

Voters Lists:

1. 1852/53

For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI and use the Parishes link at the top of the page.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St Dominick can be located at coordinates K - 6.

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:

Pillaton, St Mellion, Callington and Calstock.

ONLINE BOOKS:

St Dominick 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 n350). Also downloadable as a pdf.