A separate parish until 1779, when it was combined with Minster.
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The Online Parish Clerk for Forrabury is Mike Gabriel, who may be reached via Email.
Information can be found at COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) which is almost 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.
Register transcriptions, courtesy of Mike Gabriel and others, are in our searchable database (C-PROP), the coverage details are available here. For other Parish Register information, please see GenUKI (link below) and the LDS website (library section).
For information, see GenUKI (link below).
The OPC for Newquay, Andy Ross, has edited 2 books written by his great-grandfather, William Francis Allen Burnard, which contain many reminiscences of life in Newquay, Forrabury (Boscastle) and surrounding parishes. Very generously, he has allowed copies to be available for download as pdfs. (Files suitable for hi-speed internet connections only). Click on the title to view - History of Boscastle and Trevalga and My Early and Older Days.
Transcriptions of some MIs are available here.
For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.
For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Forrabury can be located at coordinates H - 8.
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.
St Juliot,
Minster and
Trevalga.
