The parish of

NEWQUAY

Created 1882

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

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