The parish of

ST KEW

The volunteer as Online Parish Clerk for St Kew is Christine Parker who can be contacted by email.
She has a website here.

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, 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:

Legal documents:

1. An Indenture, dated 4 Nov 1773, naming Walter BEAR of this parish.
2. An Indenture, dated 21 Jul 1777, naming Joseph BENNETT of this parish.
3. The Will of Geo. WILCE, dated 12 Jun 1804, and a letter? relating to it. Named are his wife Ann, daughters Ann TRUFFRY?, Catherine LEAN? and Mary Anne; sons John, Thomas, Henry and George; brothers Thomas, William and John; sister Elizabeth plus various tenants in the Parishes concerned.
4. The Will of Samuel BLAMEY, dated 28 Mar 1827, mentioning lands and tenements in the parish of St Kew occupied by Saml. WORDEN,  Wm. THOMAS & Wm. MATHEW.
5. An Indenture, dated 9 Dec 1833, concerning Maidenland, naming Thomas Richard CURGENVEN, late of St Kew, and William JEFFERY, Nicholas REYNOLDS and John CURGENVEN, deceased.
6. A Will, dated 3 Feb 1848, made by Mary BEER of Michaelstow, but regarding land in St Kew.
7. The Will of John GRAY of St Endellion, dated 8 Nov 1887, executor Nicholas CLEAVE of St Kew.

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1853/54

For more information regarding History, Population, and much more, visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St Kew can be located at coordinates G - 7.

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:

St Minver, Endellion, Port Isaac, St Teath, St Tudy, St Mabyn, Egloshayle.

ONLINE BOOKS:

St Kew 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 332). Also downloadable as a pdf.