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