The parish of

LANLIVERY

This rather bleak moorland parish is situated above a tributary of the Fowey River, west of Lostwithiel. Its boundaries are to the north Lanivet and Lanhydrock, to the east St Winnow, to the west Luxulyan, and to the south Tywardreath and St Sampson (Golant). As well as Lanlivery, other villages within the parish boundaries are Redmoor, Sweetshouse, Milltown and Tangier, this now being part of modern day Lostwithiel.

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	St Brevita the Parish Church	The 'Ringers' Rhyme'
	The Church interior, (Church photos reproduced with the kind permission of Ellen McConnell.)	The Crown Inn, photo reproduced with the kind permission of the landlord, Andrew Brotheridge

The Lanlivery parish church of St Brevita has a tower that is 100 feet high and one of the finest in Cornwall. The Churchyard is the centre of the rural village. This Churchyard is relatively small, with approximately 222 memorials. The site is flat, however the burial areas may be uneven, with many headstones and monuments.

In the church tower, there is the "ringers rhyme" which is pictured above. The bells still ring out over the modern day parish, and they make a splendid sound.

The Lanlivery pub, The Crown Inn (pictured above) is a 12th century long house with low beams slate floors and open fires. It is directly on the "Saints Way"- a walk across Cornwall once undertaken by cattle drovers from Ireland "fat walking" the cattle from Padstow to Fowey avoiding sailing around Lands End. Then embarking the animals at Fowey to sail to France. Pilgrims joined these drovers and built churches on the route. Much of the present building still dates from the 12th century although the pub was extended to house the stonemasons who built the charming church of St Brevita, which is located just behind the pub.

The Online Parish Clerk for Lanlivery is Pauline Pickup, who can be contacted by Email.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

The OPC offers look-ups from 1841 to 1901.

Further Information can be found at COCP (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:

The following look-ups are available:
Baptisms: 1685-1999
Marriages: up to 1813 (Phillimores) & 1813 - 1910
Marriage banns: 1906 - 1989
Burials: 1769 - 1783, 1804 - 1807, 1813 - 2000
Non-conformist baptisms: Some records have been transcribed

Some marriages of strays are available here (people from Lanlivery who married elsewhere).

For further Parish Register information, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently. The parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

Various trade directories are available for look-ups and the following are online:

Post Office Directory 1873.

Kelly's Directory for Devon and Cornwall 1883.

Kelly's Directory for Devon and Cornwall 1893.

Kelly's Directory for Devon and Cornwall 1902.

Kelly's Directory for Devon and Cornwall 1914.

For further information, see GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directories website..

OTHER:

St Brevita, the Parish Church, has its own website.

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53
3. 1856/57

Indentures & Wills:

1. Indenture dated 21 Feb 1852, between William WESTLAKE, William BURGESS and William REED.
2. Indenture dated 23 Oct 1877, naming Nicholas KENDALL and Thomas Edwin CONGDON.
3. Will of William BESWATHERICK, dated 13 Nov 1830
4. Will of William BATE, dated 30 Aug 1860
5. Will of William HIGGS, dated 5 Aug 1869

Bastardy/Filiation Documents:

1. Examination of Elizabeth ROSKELLY of Lostwithiel, dated 28 Apr 1804, and Bond, dated 9 Jul 1804. Both mention Thomas JANE of Lanlivery.
2. Bond, dated 8 May 1811, concerning a child of Elizabeth ROSKILLY's, mentioning William BERSEY of Lanlivery.

Law Breakers:

1. Some names and summaries are available here.
2. An article concerning William BARTLETT (1837 - 1882), hanged for a murder committed whilst he was Foreman of Messrs Freeman’s Colkerrow Granite Quarry.
3. Court Cases - transcriptions of newspaper reports, dated 15  & 29 Feb 1918, of cases involving the Rev. Wm Edward Wynne, Vicar of Lanlivery, and John Rundle Henwood, Geo. Henwood and Irwin Hawkey.

War Memorial, 1914-18:

Photograph and inscription.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Lanlivery can be located at coordinates H - 5.

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:

Lostwithiel, Lanhydrock, St Winnow, St Sampson (Golant), Tywardreath and Lanivet.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Lanlivery 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 390). Also downloadable as a pdf.