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THE PARISH OF

MADRON

is an ancient Cornish parish, located in the Hundred of Penwith, just northwest of Penzance. In 1801, the population stood at 1,564. By 1851, it was 2,539. Currently, the population is just over 4,000.
 



 
The Online Parish Clerk for Madron is Patricia Hard, who may be reached via Email.

A Message from the OPC:

I do not maintain a website, but records have been placed online. Please contact me at the above address for additional information, or if you have any questions. I look forward to hearing from you.
 
Patricia

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

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.

REGISTERS:

Please visit the Madron website. For further Parish Register information, please see our searchable database (C-PROP), GenUKI (link above) and the LDS website, Library section.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see the West Penwith website, or visit GenUKI. Link below.

OTHER:

For a transcription of a marriage settlement between Thomas BOLITHO (concerning his daughter, Elizabeth) of this parish and John BORLASE of Helston, dated 13 March 1791, click here.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Madron can be located at coordinates B - 2.

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:

Sancreed, St Just in Penwith (pre-1849), Pendeen (post-1849), Morvah, Gulval, Penzance, Newlyn St. Peter (post-1851) and Paul.