CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

FALMOUTH, King Charles

Falmouth Pendennis Castle
Falmouth
© Charles Winpenny, 2004		 Pendennis Castle, 2002
© Karen Start
Old Falmouth
The Fish Quay, Falmouth c. 1900
© The Malcolm McCarthy Collection

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Falmouth, King Charles is Louise Haywood, who can be contacted by Email.
 
For information about (and contact details for) the current town 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, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently and GenUKI (link below). The parish coverage page for C-PROP is here.

Transcripts of other register information available on this website -

Society of Friends/Quaker births (1837 - 1897), marriages (1839 - 1894), burials (1837 - 1908) use zoom to view.

Falmouth Union Workhouse births 1866 - 1914

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Bastardy Bonds: - these usually name the local Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor and Justices of the Peace, as well as the couple concerned.

  1. A Bond, dated 1 Oct 1742, naming Alexander JAMES and Thomas MILLS of the Town of Falmouth.
  2. A Bond, dated 6 May 1812, naming William PARKES and William GARD of the Town of Falmouth.
  3. A Bond, dated 26 Nov 1814, naming Thomas MILLER the Elder of the Borough of Falmouth.

Voters' Lists:

  1. 1832 for Parish of Falmouth.
  2. 1832 for the Town of Falmouth.
  3. 1834 (corrected version of an 1832 list) for the Town of Falmouth, election of Knights of the Shire.
  4. 1834 (corrected version of an 1832 list) for the Parish of Falmouth, election of Knights of the Shire.

Wills:

  1. dated 26 Nov 1808, Jane MOTTON
  2. dated 2 Jun 1831, Margaret EVA

Other Documents:

  1. 1866-1911, Falmouth Union Workhouse births
  2. dated 21 Dec 1894, a list of lunatic paupers
  3. Some Monumental Inscriptions
  4. A pdf file of 19th century billboards, naming businesses from several parishes and some of their proprietors

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 Falmouth 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:

Falmouth All Saints (post-1889), Penwerris (post-1848), Budock and, across the estuary, Flushing (post-1844).

SUGGESTED READING:

Darling-Finan, N, (2001) Images of Bygone Falmouth, Breedon Books Publishing
Davies, A, (1989) The History of the Falmouth Working Boats, Cornwall Lithographic Printers
Gay, S.E., (1903) Old Falmouth. The story of the town from the days of the Killigrews to the earliest part of the 19th century., Headley Brothers
Gilson, P., (1990) Falmouth in Old Photographs, Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd.
Gilson, P., (1992) The Lower Fal in Old Photographs, Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd.
Gilson, P., (1994) The Upper Fal in Old Photographs, Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd.
Kempthorne, J.L., (1928) Falmouth Parish Church, The Cornish Echo Co.
Newman, R, (11th edition) The Charm of The Fal, J.H.Lake & Co. Ltd.
Wallace, M.L., (1949) The Story of the Parish of All Saints Falmouth 1924-1949, Parrett & Neves Ltd.
Other possibilities:-
The Falmouth Packets, David Mudd
Bygone Falmouth, Sheila Bird
Falmouth's Famous Past, Bob Dunstan
The History of Falmouth, James Whetter
Falmouth Haven: The Maritime History of a Great West Country Port, D.G. Wilson
The History of the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club 1871-1949, Lt Col C.J.H. Mead
History and Description of the Town and Harbour of Falmouth, R.Thomas

ONLINE BOOKS:

Falmouth is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume II by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page n7). Also downloadable as a pdf.