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The parish of

EGLOSKERRY

Egloskerry Parish Church
The Parish Church
© Glenda Garrelts Mattes 		Egloskerry Methodist Church
© Philippa Stout

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Egloskerry is Dallas Manicom who can be contacted by Email.

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

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 and other resources, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently and GenUKI. The parish coverage page for C-PROP is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Egloskerry MIs may be viewed by clicking here.

Apprenticeship Indentures:

  1. 15 Jul 1728, Christopher PAINTER to John SALTREN
  2. 4 Jan 1731, Grace ROWE to William RAWLE
  3. 9 Sep 1742, John JACKET to Millicent PHILIPS
  4. 9 Sep 1742, Elizabeth HARRIS to Richard HORNABROOK
  5. 9 Sep 1742, William SWEET to John HAWKIN of Lewannick
  6. 7 Sep 1744, Mary HEADON alias PHILIPS to Oliver BARNS
  7. 7 Sep 1744, Elizabeth SIMONS to Mrs Mary TRUEBODY

Settlement Papers:

  1. dated 11 Aug 1783, Thomas PAWLING, Egloskerry to North Petherwin
  2. dated 28 Jun 1785, William & Catherine CREEPER, Egloskerry to St Stephen by Launceston
  3. dated 28 Jun 1785, William & Catherine TUCKER, Egloskerry to St Stephen by Launceston
  4. dated 14 Oct 1795, Mary VOSPER from Egloskerry to Laneast
  5. dated 2 Jul 1796, Mary PHINNIMORE from Egloskerry to Treneglos

Voters Lists:

  1. 1851/52
  2. 1852/53
  3. 1856/57
  4. 1864/65

Wills:

  1. dated 5 Jan 1746/7, Nicholas HILL

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 Treneglos 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:

Laneast, Tresmere, North Petherwin, St Stephen by Launceston, St Thomas by Launceston and Trewen.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Egolskerry (Egles-Kerry) 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 n416). Also downloadable as a pdf.
  2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol II transcripts including Egloskerry (transcribed and in our database)