CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

KEA

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Kea is John Warren, who can be contacted by Email.

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 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:

Bastardy/Filiation Documents:

  1. 28 Jun 1780, naming William ROWE the Younger of this Parish

Indentures & Other Legal Documents:

  1. dated 17 Jul 1705, pre-nuptial settlement, marriage between Richard SLADD of Philleigh and Johan HAWEIS of Kea
  2. dated 21 Mar 1818, Indenture naming Joseph HICK of this parish.

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 Kea 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:

Baldhu (post-1847), Gwennap, St. Day (post-1833), Chacewater (post-1826), Mithian (post-1848), Kenwyn, Truro, St Clement, St Michael Penkevil, Feock, Devoran (post-1873) and Perranarworthal.

Kea 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 298). Also downloadable as a pdf.