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The parish of

ST NEOT

St Neot St Neot
St Neot Parish Church
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Trenant Chapel
Trenant Chapel
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Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The OPC (Genealogy) for St Neot is Kay Halley, who can be contacted by Email.
 
For information about (and contact details for) the current parish council, please see this website. For information about the Parish Church see the Diocesan 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, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP), GenUKI (link above) and the LDS website, Library section. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Indentures:

  1. two Indentures, dated 19 Aug 1808 and 20 Aug 1808, naming Charles OLIVER, Thomas POMERY, Benjamin TILLIE and Thomas JOHNS of this parish and mentioning Pomerys House and other property.
  2. an Indenture, dated 22 Jun 1841, naming Charles OLLIVER and William LANGSFORD of this parish.
  3. an Indenture, dated 21 Jul? 1849, naming Peter GERRY, John LOBB, Thomas MALLETT, William LANGSFORD, William BAWDEN, John HARRIS and William KEAST of this parish.
  4. an Indenture, dated 29 Sep 1866, concerning the Tenement of Trenay, but with much information about the GREGOR family. Other surnames mentioned are ALLEN, BOOKER, CAWSE, COCK, COLCHESTER, COUCH, DAVIES, GLANVILLE, GRYLLS, DARE, LOBB, POLE-CAREW, RODD, NEMYSS, TREMAYNE, WILLIAMS and WILLYAMS.

Land Tax:

These records contain names of proprietors / land owners and occupiers, as well as other data.

  1. 1793. Palmer's Survey, transcribed by Gary & Fiona Crossley.
  2. 1798/1799. These searchable records are in our database.
  3. 1873. These are also in our database.

Manors:

Manor of West Draynes, 1793 - 1851. Gary Crossley has given permission for his degree dissertation to be published here. It concerns the effects of changes in agriculture, mining, religion &c. on the life of the inhabitants and mentions many local names. The manor covered part of the parish of St Neot. (10MB pdf file)

Voters Lists:

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

Wills:

  1. dated 17 Feb 1707, Alexander MUTTON
  2. dated 18 Apr 1746, Joseph WARNE
  3. dated 23 Jun 1748, William ROWE
  4. dated 16 Jan 1829, the Will of John BAWDEN

Other documents mentioning several parishes, including St Neot, can be found 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 St Neot 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:

Warleggan, Temple, Blisland, Bolventor, St Cleer, Liskeard, St Pinnock and Bradock.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Historical sketch of the parish of Saint Neot (Cornwall). Including the life of Saint Neot, together with a description of the Parish church and its windows, and the Ballad of Tregeagle (1906) compiled by William Axworthy. Also downloadable as a pdf from here.
  2. St Neot 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.
  3. Summary of 17th Century Churchwarden's Accounts by Sir J. H. Lefroy.