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The parish of

MAKER

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Maker is Gillian Kempster, 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 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:

Voters Lists:

Parish of Maker:

  1. 1851/52
  2. 1852/53
  3. 1864/65

Tything of Vaultershome (the part of the parish near Kingsand, formerly part of Devon):

  1. 1851/52
  2. 1852/53
  3. 1864/65

Wills:

  1. An extract from the Will of Richard Trevill Esq, dated 1647, regarding bequests to the inhabitants of St. John, Maker and Rame parishes, copied from a St John Parish Register.
  2. 10 Oct 1746, Joan GENNYS
  3. dated 12 Oct 1778, John ALLEN

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 Maker Cornwall 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:

Rame, St John, Antony, Torpoint (post-1819) and Millbrook (post-1867).

ONLINE BOOKS:

Maker 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.

PHOTOGRAPHS:

Kingsand
Contributed by Diane Donohue


The Clock Tower
A typical narrow lane