CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

FORRABURY

A separate parish until 1779, when it was combined with Minster.

Forrabury Forrabury
Forrabury Church
© Mike Gabriel
 		 Forrabury Church
© Mike Gabriel
 
Boscastle 
Boscastle c. 1900
© The Malcolm McCarthy Collection
 
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Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Forrabury is Mike Gabriel, 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 (link below). 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:

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.

Voters Lists:

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

Wills:

  1. dated 9 May 1794, Charles MOREHOUSE

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

MAPS:

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.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

St Juliot, Minster and Trevalga.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Forrabury (Farabury) 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 48). Also downloadable as a pdf.