The parish of

HELLAND

The Parish Church of St Helena
© Pauline Pickup 2008

Hi, I'm Rich Hender the OPC for Helland. I can do lookups for Baptisms 1813 - 1999, Marriages 1838 - 1911, Burials 1813 - 1998. Also I have Hearth Taxes, Protestations and Free and Voluntary. If you would like some information or have any to share, please contact me by email.

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 searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated regularly, and GenUKI.  The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Directories website, which has many directories online to view for free.

OTHER:

Voters Lists:

For Lists for 1851/52. 1853/54 and 1864/65 click here.

Legal Documents:

1. An Indenture, dated 17 Jun 1843, naming Thomas PEARCE, the younger, of this parish and Richard HOCKING, grocer, of Bodmin.
2. For an indenture (dated 1 Oct 1877) involving William John NICKELL and several properties / parcels of land in this parish, click here.
3. Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, purchase of land, dated 13 Nov 1834. Helland residents mentioned include Humphrey DREADON and Thomas PEARSE.

The OPC has a copy of the School Register from 1908 to 1961 and is willing to do look-ups.

For more information regarding History, Population, and much more, visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Helland can be located at coordinates H - 6.

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:

Egloshayle, St Mabyn, Blisland, Cardinham and Bodmin.

Helland 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 150). Also downloadable as a pdf.