The parish of

GULVAL

The Parish Church © Anthea Augustson

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Gulval is Bill Curnow, who can be contacted by Email.

For information about (and contact details for) the current town council of Penzance, 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.

Transcripts for Gulval residents baptised (1840-1899) and buried (1813-1901) in Madron are available.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Memorial Inscriptions:

Photographs of some brass plaques from inside the church are here.

Obituaries of Emigrants:

Dates could be of death or of newspaper publication.  Other obituaries, where the parish name isn't specified, can be found in our resources section.

1. 2 Oct 1917, Thomas MORRIS
2. 14 Feb 1942, John EDWARDS (& Ellen JOHNS)

Wills:

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 Gulval 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:

Penzance, Madron, Zennor, Towednack and Ludgvan.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Gulval 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 118). Also downloadable as a pdf.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XII transcripts including Gulval (transcribed and in our database)