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The parish of

LUXULYAN

Luxulyan Church

Gunwen Wesleyan Chapel, built 1869
 © Pauline Pickup


The Parish Church
© David Coppin

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerks (Genealogy) for Luxulyan are Ann & Mike Hicks, 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 (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 Luxulyan 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:

Bastardy/Filiation Documents:

  1. dated 29 July 1802, naming William BRYANT of this parish

Poor Law Documents:

  1. 3 Jul 1747, Joan ROSEVEARE

Settlement Papers:

  29? Apr 1716, John WILLIAMS 30 Mar 1758, Gilbert STEPHENS & family
  22 Apr 1717, Richard SCANTERBERRY & family 11 Jan 1759, Joseph TREISER & family
  4 Dec 1740, Ralph ESTERBROOK & family 15 Jan 1759, John VAGUE
  6 May 1741, Thomas & Mary PHILP 19 Apr 1759, Benjamin GARLAND & family
  27 Apr 1743, Anne DOWNING 7 Apr 1760, Jane ESTERBROOKE
  2 May 1743, William RUNNALLS & family 14 Jul 1760, Mary HESTERBROOK
  19 Jun 1745, William DOWNING 17 Jul 1764, Temperance MANNEAR
  9 Sep 1746, John HAWKIN 3 Sep 1764, Richard TREHARE & family
  8 Jan 1749, Ann HAWKINS 1764 & 1765, Catherine SYMONS
  Mar & Apr 1755, Robert VAGUE & family 6 Jun 1828, Elizabeth HAMBLY & son Richard
  Jul & Aug 1755, Joseph NICHOLL & family  

Voters Lists:

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

Wills:

  1. dated 26 Jun 1643, Nicholas GROSSE
  2. dated 18 Dec 1852, Peter WELLINGTON

Other documents mentioning several parishes, including Luxulyan, can be found here.

For more 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 Luxulyan 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:

St Austell (pre-1850), Treverbyn (post-1850), Roche, Lanivet, Lanlivery, Tywardreath and St Blazey.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Luxulyan 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.