CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

KILKHAMPTON

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The volunteer Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Kilkhampton is Alan Rowland, 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:

Please click here for Parish Register Burials, 1837 to 1906. For other Parish Register information, please contact me or see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated regularly.

Transcriptions of the Parish Register Burials, 1837-1906, are available on this website.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI. Link below.

OTHER:

Memorial Inscriptions:

  1. Transcriptions of headstones removed from inside Parish Church
  2. Kilkhampton Methodist Church

Voters Lists:

  1. 1851/52
  2. 1852/53
  3. 1856/57
  4. 1864/65

Wills:

  6 Apr 1692, John HONEY 20 May 1746, Edward HILL
31 Dec 1703, Hannah HONEY 1 Mar 1748, Degory SHEPHERD
  5 Jun 1710, Joseph CORRINDON (Rector) 29 Jan 1753, Margaret HONEY

For further 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 Kilkhampton 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:

Morwenstow, Poughill and Launcells, plus parishes in Devon.

SUGGESTED READING:

The History of the Parish and Church of Kilkhampton By the Rev. R. (Roderick) Dew, M.A., F.S.A.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Kilkhampton 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 340). Also downloadable as a pdf.
  2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XX transcripts including Kilkhampton (transcribed and in our database). For the Contents page, keep clicking Next until page 7/159 appears.