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The parish of

KENWYN

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Kenwyn is Gillian Hart, 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:

These usually name the local Justices of the Peace, Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, as well as those people mentioned below.

  13 May 1758, Gabriel QUICK and Thomas DINGLE 17 Sep 1783, William ANDEAN
  28 Jun 1780, William and Edward LAWRY 19 Nov 1804, Thomas CAVELL

Indentures:

  18 Feb 1815, Nicholas SPRY, his children and William CLEMOW  

Settlement Papers:

  5 & 12 Feb 1711, Edward Carne & family 24 May 1793, Alice KESTELL & daughter
  13 Sep 1731, William JAMES & family 10 Feb 1800, Mary RUNALLS (& Luxulyan)
  2 May 1743, William RUNNALLS & family 26 Mar 1801, William RUNNALLS & family (& Luxulyan)
  29 Apr 1790, Jane PEARCE & daughter (& St Breock) 3 Mar 1808, Peter & Jennifer TREGUNNA & daughter (& Probus)

Wills:

  13 Jan 1730, Simon WHIBBE 19 Jan 1747, Cathren FRENCH
  9 Apr? 1738, Thomas THOMAS 21 Oct 1748, William COCK
  4 Dec 1741, Thomas TREVOSO 30 Dec 1748, Thomas OATES
  30 Oct 1742, Edward FRANCHES 21 Apr 1749, John LUKES
  7 Nov 1743, John TREWEELER 20 Jan 1826, Richard SOBEY
  5 Feb 1746, Nicholas OATS  

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 Kenwyn 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:

Mithian (post-1848), Kea, Perranzabuloe, St Allen, St Clement, Truro and Baldhu (post-1847).

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Kenwyn 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 314). Also downloadable as a pdf.
  2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XXII transcripts including Kenwyn (transcribed and in our database). For the Contents page, keep clicking Next until page 7/147 appears.