CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

ST IVES

St Ives Parish Church
The Parish Church
© Anthea Augustson

Parish Church interior

View from street

View from distance

Fore Street Methodist Chapel
 
 
 Other photographs of St Ives, click thumbnail to view.
 
Contributed by David Coppin & Anthea Augustson
     
     

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for St Ives is Rick Parsons, who can be contacted by Email.

Please visit his West Penwith website for extensive records, photographs, maps and other information about the parish.


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:

Many transcriptions can be found on Rick's website. For other 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:

See the West Penwith website and, for more information, visit the University of Leicester's website of Historical Directories or GenUKI.

OTHER:

Legal Documents:

  1. dated 1 Nov 1845, affidavit concerning baptism of John WILLIAMS on 12 Jun 1835

Wills:

  26 Feb 1737, John KING 26 Jun 1748, William HARRY
  25 Oct 1744, Matthew STEVENS  

Please visit Rick's website for a wide variety of reference material, including maps and history. For more information visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St Ives 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:

Towednack, Lelant and Halsetown (post-1848).

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. St Ives 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 256).
  2. A history of the parishes of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor by John Hobson Matthews
  3. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XIV transcripts including St Ives (transcribed and in our database)