The parish of

MORWENSTOW

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

The OPC has the following resources:

1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 (Morwenstow)
 
1841, 1851, 1881 (Welcombe)
 
1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 (Lundy)

The COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) website and FreeCen have searchable databases.

REGISTERS:

The OPC has the following resources:

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

For further 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:

The OPC has the following resources:

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)
Grimscott (Launcells) Methodist Chapel
Kilkhampton Wesleyan Chapel
Edistone Wesleyan Chapel
The island of 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

Indentures, Bonds etc:

Apprenticeship Indentures 1715 - 1841
Bastardy Bonds 1716 - 1819 (6 documents)
Poor Law Rates 1849 - 1851
Settlement Papers 1721 - 1844 (16 documents)

RESOURCES ON THIS WEBSITE:

Apprenticeship Documents:

1. 1715-1797 (re-size pdf for a better view)
2. 1803-1841 (re-size pdf for a better view)

Bastardy/Filiation Documents:

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.

Memorial Inscriptions:

1. The parish church - old & new graveyards & church interior, plus plans.
2. Shop Methodist Chapel - inscriptions & plan.
3. Woodford Bible Christian Chapel - inscriptions & plan.
4. Woodford Wesleyan Chapel - inscriptions & plan.

Settlement Papers:

1. dated 15 Apr 1721, Thomas DAVIE, wife & children
2. dated 20 Sep 1761, Richard FURSE
3. dated 12 Jun 1769, William WACKLEY
4. dated 7 Nov 1769, Edward SHUTE
5. dated 7 Nov 1769, George WALKEY
6. dated 15 Oct 1793, Joan GRILLS
7. dated 4 Aug 1815, Nicholas BAILEY
8. dated 18 Dec 1815, request for legal advice regarding John GREENAWAY
9. dated 26 Dec 1821, Thomas WAKLEY
10. dated 20 Mar 1844, John MAKER & family, including Settlement Order and Examinations

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53
3. 1856/57
4. 1864/65

MAPS:

A map of settlements, roads & footpaths within the parish.

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 Morwenstow 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:

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

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Morwenstow 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.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XVII transcripts including Morwenstow (Morwinstow) (transcribed and in our database).