The parish of

GWINEAR

Gwinear Church, © 2004, Charles Winpenny

The Online Parish Clerk for Gwinear is Roger Shirley, who can be contacted by Email and maintains a website.
 
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 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.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Settlement Documents:

Voters Lists:

1. 1832
2. 1834

Wills:

For 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 Gwinear 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:

Phillack, Gwithian, Camborne, Treslothan (post-1845), Crowan, St Erth and Hayle St. Elwyn (post-1888).

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Gwinear 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 140). Also downloadable as a pdf.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XII transcripts including Gwinear (transcribed and in our database)