The parish of

GWITHIAN

The volunteer OPC for Gwithian is Kathie Weigel, who is currently unavailable, but maintains a website which might be of use for researchers.
 
In the meantime, Ian J. Trewhella offers help with research.
 

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.

VOTERS:

The 1834 Voters List for the parish.

WILLS:

1. 20 Feb 1729, John COCK

OTHER:

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Gwithian can be located at coordinates C - 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:

Phillack, Camborne, Penponds (post-1854) and Gwinear.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Gwithian 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 144). Also downloadable as a pdf.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol III transcripts including Gwithian (transcribed and in our database)