CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

PAUL

Dolly Pentreath Dolly Pentreath
The Memorial to Dorothy (Dolly) Pentreath
supposedly the last person to speak only Cornish
© the Malcolm McCarthy Collection
 		 An enlargement of the text on the Memorial
© the Malcolm McCarthy Collection
  

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

There is no OPC for this parish. If you would like to volunteer, please contact our co-ordinator Myra Cordrey by Email.
In the meantime, Diane Donohue 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 and other resources, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP), and GenUKI. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

The Burial Register entry for Betsy OXNAM, wife of the Rev. William, 1797.

To view an Indenture, dated 4 Jun 1816, which mentions Richard KEIGWIN, Richard BARNES, Stephen BLEWETT and John PENTREATH of this Parish, click here.

Wills:

  1. John COLMAN, dated 3 Oct 1742. A mariner, probably originally a resident of this parish.
  2. John EVANS, dated 29 Sep 1856

For information regarding History, Population, and much more, visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Paul can be located at coordinates B - 2.

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 PARISHES:

St Buryan, Sancreed, Madron and Newlyn St Peter (post-1851).

ONLINE BOOKS:

Paul is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838. Also downloadable as a pdf from here.