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' |
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;) 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 |
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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 may be reached via Email.
I do not have a website; instead please contact me at the above
address for information.
Pauline
Look-ups available from the OPC for 1841-1901. Alternatively information can be found at COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) which is almost 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.
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).
the Lanlivery section of Kelly's Directory for Devon and Cornwall 1893.
the Lanlivery section of Kelly's Directory for Devon and Cornwall 1914.
Some look-ups from other sources are available. For other information, see GenUKI (link below).
William BESWATHERICK, dated 13 Nov 1830
William BATE, dated 30 Aug 1860
William HIGGS, dated 5 Aug 1869
dated 21 Feb 1852, between William WESTLAKE, William BURGESS and William REED.
dated 23 Oct 1877, naming Nicholas KENDALL and Thomas Edwin CONGDON.
For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.
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.
Lostwithiel, Lanhydrock,
St Winnow,
St Sampson (Golant),
Tywardreath
and Lanivet.
