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

The Online Parish Clerk for Paul is Stella Wright, 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:

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:

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 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.