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The parish of

MENHENIOT

Menheniot Church
The Parish Church
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Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Menheniot is Sue Mutton, 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 and other resources, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently. The parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

Menheniot entries in

  1. The Post Office Directory, 1856.
  2. The Post Office Directory, 1873.
  3. Kelly's Directory, 1883.
  4. Kelly's Directory, 1889.

For further information, see GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directories website.

OTHER:

Settlement Papers:

  1. 11 Jan 1759, Joseph TREISER & family
  2. 1848/49, account for the resettlement of Ann PAWLY and family between Sheviock and Menheniot

Voters Lists:

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

Wills:

  1. proved 26 Jun 1747, John HONY
  2. proved 28 Apr 1748, Samuel SWIGG
  3. dated 15 Dec 1748, John ROWLY
  4. proved 6 Feb 1761, Joseph SOBY
  5. proved 2 Sep 1763, Hannah MUTTON
  6. proved 19 Oct 1781, Margrett SOBY
  7. dated 9 Feb 1810, George HICKS
  8. dated 23 Oct 1820, Robert HANCOCK
  9. proved 20 Nov 1856, Richard KELLY

Other Documents:

  1. For an Indenture, dated 15 Nov 1788, concerning Davey's Trewint in this parish, click here.
  2. The Menheniot entry from Magna Britain : volume 3 by Daniel & Samuel Lysons, 1814 can be viewed here.

For more information regarding history, population, etc., 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 Menheniot 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:

Liskeard, St Cleer, St Ive, Quethiock, Tideford and Morval.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Menheniot is included in

  1. 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.
  2. The Cornwall Register by John Wallis, 1847. A brief summary of the parish starting on page 345, plus entries in the various tables found throughout the book (use the search function). A pdf is available here.
  3. A Compendium of the History of Cornwall (1880) by John Jeremiah Daniell. A brief summary on page n167 and other references throughout the book.
     

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