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The parish of

NEWLYN EAST

The parish of Newlyn East lies in the centre of Cornwall about 7 miles from Newquay and Truro. The village of Newlyn East has about 1400 people living in it today and the parish also includes the smaller village of Mitchell. It is possible that the ancient name was Nulyn but it is equally likely that the name is taken from St Newlina, a Welsh saint. It was not called Newlyn East until the village of Newlyn was developed on the western edge of Penzance.

The village of Mitchell was originally called Medeschole and is first recorded in written records in AD1234, when its charter was upheld. It was a wholly artificial borough created to benefit the landowners. For two hundred years it was a "Rotten Borough" returning two Members of Parliament, including Sir Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) and Sir Walter Raleigh. This all came to an end with the Reform Act of 1832.

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Newlyn East is Blanche Charles, who can be contacted by Email.

Visit my website for more information.

Blanche.

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:

Newlyn East Burials, A - L and M - Z, are on this website and Baptisms and Burials included in C-PROP, our searchable database. These were donated by Michael McCormick, the original OPC for the parish. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

A Bastardy Bond, dated 30 Mar 1809, involving Joan COCKING of Probus and James MARTYN and Thomas MARTYN, both of the Borough of Mitchell.

An agreement, dated 13 Jun 1904, regarding the renting of land to William Henry MAY.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Newlyn East can be located at coordinates F - 5.

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:

Perranzabuloe, Cubert, Crantock, St Columb Minor, Colan, St Eoder, Ladock, St Erme and St Allen.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Newlyn East (Newlin) 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.