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The parish of

PAUL

The Parish Church
© Anthea Augustson

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

There OPC (Genealogy) for Paul is Greta Erm, who can be contacted by email.

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.

Memorial Inscriptions:

A few photographs are available here.

Wills:

  1. 10 Nov 1601, Olyve BADCOCK
  2. 11 Jan 1608, Elisabeth HUTCHENS
  3. 4 Jul 1621, Marten BODENER
  4. 3 Mar 1652, Joane BODINAR
  5. 6 Feb 1662, William HUCHENS
  6. 3 Oct 1742, John COLMAN, mariner, probably originally a resident of this parish.
  7. 29 Sep 1856, John EVANS

For information regarding History, Population, and much more, 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 Paul Cornwall 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 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

MORE PHOTOGRAPHS:

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