The parish of
PELYNT
is located in the hundred of West and was called Piunent in the Doomsday Book.
The land was originally one of the 280 manors given to the Earl of
Morton by William the Conqueror. Associated with the parish are the
manors of Trelawney, Trelawne, and Tregarrick. The only village in
the parish is the Churchtown, but it also includes Tregarrick,
Tresawsen, and Little Larnick, Hall, and the estate of Wilton.
The Online Parish Clerk for Pelynt is Sue Dent, 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) 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:
Voters Lists:
-
1851/52
-
1852/53
-
1856/57
For more information regarding history,
population, etc., visit
GenUKI.
MAPS:
For a Parish Locator map, please click
here. Pelynt can be located at coordinates
I - 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.
ADJACENT PARISHES:
Talland,
Lansallos,
Duloe,
Lanreath and St Veep.
ONLINE BOOKS:
Pelynt 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.
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