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The parish of

NORTH HILL

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for North Hill is Gwynneth Wakeham, who is currently unavailable. In the meantime, Sue Mutton offers help with research.

For information about (and contact details for) the current parish council please see this website.

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:

For Parish Register information, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP), GenUKI and the LDS website, Library section. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Voters Lists:

  1. 1851/52
  2. 1852/53
  3. 1864/65

Wills:

  1. 14 Apr 1774, Aaron JENKIN
  2. 3 Jun 1828, Mary JENKIN

Other Documents:

  1. 4 Jun 1773, indenture concerning Treswell & Congdon's Shop, naming Aaron JENKIN
  2. 2 Aug 1841, advertisement for auction of The White Hart, Congdon's Shop.

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

MAPS:

For a zoomable and printable map of Cornwall please visit Cornwall Council’s mapping website. To see the Parish boundaries, click on the Layers Tab for Government Boundaries.

For maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

To enjoy a "walk" around this parish, search for North Hill at http://maps.google.co.uk/, then drag the person icon from above the zoom commands and place it at a specific location on the map.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

St Cleer, Altarnun, Lewannick, Lezant and Linkinhorne.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. North Hill (Hill, North) is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume II by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page 226). Also downloadable as a pdf.
  2. Venning's New Century Postal Directory of 20 Parishes in East Cornwall, published 1901. Included several pages of advertisements from local businesses, as well as being a parish directory