 CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive | ||
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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.
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.