CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive

The parish of

FOWEY

Fowey Church
The Parish Church
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Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Fowey is Clare Williams, who can be contacted by Email, with help from Pauline Pickup, who also 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 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.Email

DIRECTORIES:

Fowey entries from the Post Office Directory for Cornwall, 1856

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

OTHER:

Apprenticeship Indentures:

27 Oct 1845, William Stribley HOAL to Edward THOMAS

Manorial Records:

These documents include lists of tenants

1740, 1742, 1745 & 1754 - Borough & Manor of Fowey
1765 - 1773 - Borough & Manor of Fowey
1800 -1817 - Manor of Fowey
c 1815 - Borough & Manor of Fowey

Settlement Papers:

26 Feb 1774, Ann ROGERS (& Probus)

11 May 1765, Thomas THOMAS & family (& Luxulyan)

Wills:

	11 Feb 1579 (proved), William DICKWOOD	7 Nov 1746 (proved), Jonas ROBERTS
	8 Jan 1638, John SAMWELL	8 Jan 1751, John COLLUMBE
	21 May 1740, Joan POMEROY	7 Jan 1782, Elizabeth Howson
	10 Feb 1743, John WILLIAMS	30 Jun 1855, William BROKENSHAW
	6 Mar 1745, Thomas MOULD	4 Feb 1882, John OLLIVER
	16 Jan 1746 (proved), John GROSE, mariner	15 Nov 1883, Charles OLLIVER
	6 Oct 1746 (proved), Thomas WHITTON

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 Fowey 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:

Tywardreath, Golant St Sampson and Lanteglos by Fowey.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Fowey 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 36). Also downloadable as a pdf.
The Cornwall Register by John Wallis, A.M. F.S.S., then Vicar of Bodmin, printed 1847. If the in-built search produces no results, use the index pages (474-476) to find your parish of interest. Tables of statistics and other data can be found at the beginning of the book, starting at page n9.
Old Foye Days, being the true Story of a Cornish Haven, by Commander Hon. Henry N. Shore, R.N., first published in 1896
Phillimore's Marriages Vol VIII transcripts including Fowey (transcribed and in our database