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The parish of

KENWYN

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Kenwyn is Gill 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:

Bonds, Orders and Indentures:

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

  1. a Bastardy Bond, dated 13 May 1758, naming Gabriel QUICK and Thomas DINGLE of this parish.
  2. a Bastardy Bond, dated 28 Jun 1780 and naming William and Edward LAWRY of this parish.
  3. a bastardy bond dated 17 Sep 1783, naming William ANDEAN of this parish.
  4. a Bastardy Bond, dated 19 Nov 1804, naming Thomas CAVELL of this parish.
  5. an indenture, dated 18 Feb 1815, involving Nicholas SPRY, his children and William CLEMOW.

Settlement Papers:

  1. 5 & 12 Feb 1711, Edward Carne & family
  2. 13 Sep 1731, William JAMES & family
  3. 2 May 1743, William RUNNALLS & family

Wills:

  1. 13 Jan 1730, Simon WHIBBE
  2. 30 Oct 1742, Edward FRANCHES
  3. 7 Nov 1743, John TREWEELER
  4. 20 Jan 1826, Richard SOBEY

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:

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.