CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

ST GENNYS

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for St Gennys is Kathy Keyes, 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, 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:

Voters Lists:

  1. 1851/52 Voters' List for this parish.
  2. 1852/53
  3. 1856/57
  4. 1864/65

Wills:

  1. 26 May 1741, William FERRETT
  2. 15 Jan 1749/50, John BAKER

For 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 St Gennys 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:

St Juliot, Otterham, Jacobstow and Poundstock.

ONLINE BOOKS:

St Gennys 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 86). Also downloadable as a pdf.