CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


THE PARISH OF

MORWENSTOW


The Online Parish Clerk for Morwenstow is Alan Rowland, who can be reached via Email.

Please visit my website for more information.

PARISH INFORMATION

Parish Registers:

The Parish Church of St John and St Morwenna Morwenstow
Births 1558 - 1901
Marriages 1558 - 1900
Deaths 1558 - 1900

The Parish Church of St Nectan's Welcombe

The Parish Church of St Helen's Lundy

Methodist Registers:

Kilkhampton Wesleyan Methodist Circuit
Baptisms 1838 - 1927
Kilkhampton Bible Christian Methodist Circuit
Baptisms 1816 - 1909
Bude Wesleyan Methodist Circuit
Baptisms 1894 - 1935
Lower Darracott Methodist Chapel
Marriages (3 only) 1927 - 1942

Monumental Inscriptions:

The Parish Church of St John and St Morwenna Morwenstow
Woodford Wesleyan Chapel
Woodford Bible Christian Chapel
Shop Methodist Chapel
The Parish Church of St Nectan Welcombe
Kilkhampton MIs (Headstones removed from Inside of Church 1500 - 1900 extracted by Rector Rev Dew c1920)

a. Grimscott (Launcells) Methodist Chapel
b. Kilkhampton Wesleyan Chapel
c. Edistone Wesleyan Chapel
d. The island of Lundy

Census:

1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 (Morwenstow)

1841, 1851, 1881 (Welcombe)

1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 (Lundy)

Tithe Apportionment:

Morwenstow Parish 1842

St Mark's School:

Log and admissions register
Log Books 1871 - 1997
Admissions Registers 1871 -
Manager's Minutes 1894 - 1933
School photographs 1908 - 1877

Morwenstow Parish Council:

Minutes 1894 - 2000

Morwenstow Parish Vestry

Vestry Minutes 1852 - 1893

Candlemas/Michaelmas payments 1838 - 1896

Other:

Apprenticeship Indentures 1715 - 1841

Bastardy Bonds 1716 - 1819 (6 documents)

Poor Law Rates 1849 - 1851

Settlement Papers 1721 - 1844 (16 documents)

To view the following, click on the date.

  1. a Bastardy Bond, dated 25 February 1716, naming Mary and Elizabeth PETHERICK, William KING, senior, and William King, junior.

  2. a Bastardy Bond, dated 30 June 1746, naming Grace TRICK of this parish.

  3. a Bastardy Bond, dated 14 November 1758, naming Mary WILLIAMS/WILLAMS and Obadiah JOHNS.

  4. a Bastardy Order, dated 13 October 1808, naming Grace CORNISH and William HAM.

  5. a Bastardy Order, dated 11 May 1819, naming Phillippa VINSON and Daniel DENNIS.

  6. a Deposition, dated 7 September 1819, naming Jane BADCOCK.

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

Maps:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Morwenstow can be located at coordinates I - 10.

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:

Kilkhampton and Welcombe, Devon. For information on the latter, please contact Alan Rowland.