The parish of
LISKEARD
The Online Parish Clerk for Liskeard is Frances Kenshole, who can be contacted by Email.
PARISH INFORMATION
CENSUS:
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:
For
Parish Register information, please see our online searchable database
(C-PROP) which is updated frequently. The parish coverage page is
here.
DIRECTORIES:
For information, see GenUKI or visit the
University of Leicester's Historical Directories website.
OTHER:
Legal Documents:
- an Indenture, dated 30 May 1787,
naming John TREHAWKE of Liskeard.
- an Indenture, dated 15
Nov 1788, naming John POMERY, his children Grace and Joseph.
Wills:
-
7 Aug
1689, Thomas WILLCOCKE
-
dated 14
Jul 1741, Samuel Curteys
-
dated 10 Jun
1845, Ebenezer EDEY
Other transcribed documents (covering multiple
parishes including Liskeard) link
from here.
For information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.
MAPS:
For a Parish Locator map, please click
here.
Liskeard can be located at coordinates J - 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:
St Pinnock,
St Neot,
St Cleer, Menheniot,
St Keyne and
Herodsfoot.
SUGGESTED READING:
Books available through the Cornwall Libraries:
- The History of the Borough of Liskeard by John Allen 1856 and revised by
William Paynter in 1967. (The original version is available online
here or
here. Click on the first page link to view the whole book, page by
page.)
- Liskeard Bygones by Jack Haworth
- Liskeard and its People by Bernard Deacon
- Liskeard Seen Through the Censuses by William Harwood
ONLINE BOOKS:
Liskeard is included in
The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert,
William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in
1838. Also downloadable as a pdf from here.
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