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The parish of

MICHAELSTOW

Michaelstow
The Parish Church
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Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Michaelstow is Gwynneth Wakeham, who can be contacted by Email.

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 coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Indentures and Other Legal Documents:
  1. An Indenture, dated 1 Nov 1676, concerning Matthews Park, naming John MOLLIS of Michaelstow and John PEARSE of Lanteglos by Camelford.
  2. An Indenture, dated 2 November 1734, concerning Tregreenwell and Barkhouse Park and mentioning William HOCKEN, John SYMONS and Richard LOWER (son of John).
  3. An Indenture, dated 27 March 1766, naming John HOCKEN of this parish and William HOCKEN of Lewannick.
  4. An Indenture/Will for Joseph POPE, dated 14 Mar 1791, naming his sons Nicholas, Thomas, Joseph, William and Matthew and daughters Dorothy BRAY, Phillippa MAY and Mary MITCHELL.
  5. An Apprenticeship Indenture, dated 13 Oct 1795, naming Mary RUNDLE of this parish.
  6. For the Will of John Rickard, dated 1 Oct 1816, click here.
  7. To view a transcription of a Will, dated 3 Feb 1848, made by Mary BEER of Michaelstow, but regarding land in St Kew, click here.

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

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Michaelstow can be located at coordinates H - 7. 

For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).

ToTo see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit MultiMap, or for maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

St Tudy, St Teath, Lanteglos by Camelford, Advent and St Breward.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Michaelstow 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.