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The parish of

ST JUST IN PENWITH

St Just in Penwith Botallack Mine
The Parish Church
photograph courtesy of Mark Hattam/Paul Ganser		 Part of the Botallack Mine complex
© Karen Start 2002
   

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for St Just in Penwith is Bob Bolitho, who can be contacted by Email.

For information about, and contact details for, the current town 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 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:

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

OTHER:

Memorial Inscriptions:

A few photographs are available here.

Obituaries of Emigrants:

An index is available in our searchable database and full transcripts in our resources section.

Wills:

  6 Jan 1746, John JELBARD 26 Jan 1810, Grace TREZISE
  4 Sep 1746, Reginald REYNOLDS 1 Feb 1816, William MAYN
  14 Aug 1747, James ADAMS 23 Dec 1840, John TREZISE
  18 May 1748, Mary MEDCALFE 13 Sep 1841, James TREZISE
  1748 & 1749, documents relating to the Will of William TRESISE 19 Jul 1843, William TREZISE
  21 Jan 1754, Francis EDWARDS 3 Jul 1845, John TREZISE
  1 Feb 1754, Henry TREZISE 27 Mar 1855, Nicholas GRENFELL

For a plan of Nanjulian and Gorland Farms, plus an auction cover dated 16 Jun 1893, click here (pdf).

For information regarding History, Population, and much more, 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 St Just in Penwith 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:

Pendeen (post-1849), Sancreed, St Buryan and Sennen.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. St Just in Penwith 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 282). Also downloadable as a pdf.
  2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol III transcripts including St Just in Penwith (transcribed and in our database)


The Parish Church Interior
© Anthea Augustson