The parish of

ST GLUVIAS, PENRYN

The Online Parish Clerk for St Gluvias is Graham Warmington, who can be contacted by Email. During June and July 2009, he might not respond to requests as quickly as usual.

Graham has a website, which links from here.

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).

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI. Link below.

OTHER:

Bastardy Bonds - these usually name the local Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor and Justices of the Peace, as well as the couple concerned.

1. A Bastardy Bond, dated 8 Jun 1781, naming William and Luke BUNTER of Penryn Borough.
2. A Bond dated 7 Jan 1786, naming Michael NICHOLLS the Younger and William SOLOMON of Penryn Borough.
3. A Warrant, dated 17 Oct 1816, naming Edmund LAKEMAN of the Borough of Penryn.
4. A Bond, dated 13 Oct 1819, naming Thomas BRAY and Thomas BRAY, Jn^r of this Parish.

Monumental Inscriptions - some transcriptions are available here.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St Gluvias can be located at coordinates E - 3.

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:

Stithians, Perranarworthal, Mylor, Budock and Mabe.

SUGGESTED READING:

Graham maintains a book list on his website.