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The parish of

ST GLUVIAS, PENRYN

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for St Gluvias is Graham Warmington, who can be contacted by Email.

St Gluvias OPC
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). The parish coverage page for C-PROP is here.

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, Jnr of this Parish

Voters Lists:

  1. 1834 List for the Borough of Penryn
  2. 1834 List for the Parish

Wills:

  1. Robert Dillon, Esq., dated 4 August 1796
  2. Joseph DILLON, Esq., dated 10 Oct 1798

Other Documents:

  1. Monumental Inscriptions - some transcriptions are available here
  2. 1866 - 1914, Falmouth Union Workhouse births (included St Gluvias)

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.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Gluvias 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 92). Also downloadable as a pdf.
  2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XIII transcripts including St Gluvias (transcribed and in our database)