The parish of

GWENNAP

A church service at Gwennap Pit, 2002 (Once used by John Wesley) © Karen Start

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Gwennap is Sandra Pritchard, who can be contacted by  Email and who maintains a website.

Contact details for the current Parish Council can be found here and the council website is 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 the University of Leicester's website of Historical Directories or GenUKI.

OTHER:

Various Documents:

1. 31? Mar1732, excommunication of Mark SAMPSON
2. 10 Oct 1808, an examination of Alice Stanaway of Ladock, naming Philip MANUEL of Gwennap.
3. 1795-1841, payment details for John & Henry ROWE as entered in Gwennap Baptisms Register.

Voters Lists:

1. 1834 List for the parish

Wills:

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Gwennap 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:

Lanner/Lannarth (post-1845), St Day (post-1833), Redruth (pre-1833), Kea (pre-1847), Baldhu (post-1847) and Perranarworthal.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Gwennap 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 128). Also downloadable as a pdf.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XXV transcripts including Gwennap (transcribed and in our database). For the Contents page, keep clicking Next until page 8/184 appears.