The parish of

ST GERMANS

St Germans Parish Church
© David Coppin

The Online Parish Clerk for St. Germans is Fred Hancock, who can be contacted by Email.

The Rame Peninsula website might be of use in your research.
 
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:

Bastardy/Filiation Documents:

1. dated 9 Jun 17--?, Warrant to arrest William DEACON, in connection with a Bastardy Order naming Mary COWLING
2. dated 23 March 1729, Bond naming Samuel HARRIS, Israel BURMAN and Mary HARRIS of this parish
3. dated 12 Nov 1761, Bond naming Mary HILL of this parish
4. dated 14 Nov 1761 and 12 Jan 1762, Warrant to arrest James JAY of Morval, and Bond naming Hester ANDREW of this parish
5. dated 9 Sep 1762, Bond naming Thomas and Charles CONGDION and Pricilla? FELMONT
6. dated 4 Nov 1763, Bond naming Elizabeth WADDLETON and John BROWN
7. dated 4 Mar 1789, Warrant to arrest Charles HOSKYN,in connection with a Bastardy Order naming Charity COLLEY

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53
3. 1864/65

Wills:

1. 10 Oct 1746, Joan GENNYS

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 St Germans 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 Martin by Looe, Morval, Menheniot, Quethiock, Landrake with St Erney and Sheviock.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. St Germans 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 58). Also downloadable as a pdf.
2. Venning's New Century Postal Directory of 20 Parishes in East Cornwall, published 1901. Included several pages of advertisements from local businesses, as well as being a parish directory
3. Heraldic Church Notes from Cornwall; containing the Heraldry and Genealogical Particulars on every Memorial in Ten Churches in the Deanery of East, by Arthur J. Jewers, F.S.A. Includes extracts from parish registers &c.