The parish of

MINSTER

A separate parish until 1779, when it was combined with Forrabury.

The Church - click thumbnails to enlarge © Mike Gabriel

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:

Transcriptions completed by the OPC are in 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:

To view some Monumental Inscriptions found at Minster Church, click here.

An Indenture, dated 17 August 1768, naming Nicholas UGLOE of Verdown.

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

For further resources see GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Minster can be located at coordinates H - 8.

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:

Morval and St Germans.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Minster 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.