CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive

 
The parish of

NEWQUAY

Created 1882
Newquay Towan Beach Newquay The Gannel
Towan Beach, Newquay c. 1939
Courtesy of Pauline Pickup
The Gannel, Newquay
Courtesy of Pauline Pickup

The Online Parish Clerk for Newquay is Pauline Pickup, who can be contacted by Email.


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 of Parish Registers and other resources are in our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently. The parish coverage page is here.

The OPC has the following records available for look-ups:-

Newquay St Michaels Baptisms 1882 - 1987
Newquay St Michaels Banns 1911 - 1988
Newquay St Michael Burials 1911 - 1979
 
NC Registers for Perranporth, St Agnes & Newquay Circuit
Baptisms 1950 - 1978
 
NC Registers Newquay Claremont
Baptisms 1908 - 1946
Marriages 1937 - 1969
 
NC Registers Sydney Road
Baptisms 1928 - 1977
 
NC Registers Newquay Wesleyan
Baptisms 1857 - 1992
Marriages 1901 - 1986

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

The previous OPC, Andy Ross, has edited 2 books written by his great-grandfather, William Francis Allen Burnard, which contain many reminiscences of life in Newquay, Forrabury (Boscastle), Trevalga and surrounding parishes. Very generously, he has allowed a copies to be available as downloadable pdfs. Click on the title to view - History of Boscastle and Trevalga and My Early and Older Days.

For further resources see GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Newquay can be located at coordinates E - 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 PARISH:

St Columb Minor