The parish of

LOOE

Banjo Pier, Looe © 2005, Charles Winpenny
Looe, circa 1890 (from a glass slide) © The Malcolm McCarthy Collection	Looe, circa 1890 (from a glass slide) © The Malcolm McCarthy Collection

The Online Parish Clerk for Looe is Sue Dent, who can be contacted by Email.

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 online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently and GenUKI (link above). The parish coverage page for C-PROP is here.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI. Link below.

OTHER:

Voters Lists:

1. East Looe 1851/52
2. East Looe 1852/53
3. East Looe 1864/65
4. West Looe 1851/52, 1852/53 & 1856/57

Wills:

For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Looe can be located at coordinates J - 4. 

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:

Talland, Duloe, Morval and St Martin by Looe.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Report of the Case of the Borough of West Looe in the County of Cornwall, by H. A. Merewether, Esq, first published in 1823.
2. Topographical and Historical Sketches of the Boroughs of East and West Looe, in the County of Cornwall, by Thomas Bond, published in 1823