The Online Parish Clerk for Penzance is Susan Evans Shaw, who may be contacted via Email.
Information can be found at COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) which is almost 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.
For Parish Register information, please see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently, GenUKI (link below) and the LDS website (library section).
For information, see GenUKI (link below).
To view a Bastardy Bond, dated 25 Apr 1785, naming Sampson RUNNALLS, Richard RUNNALLS and George EVA of this Parish, click here.
A Bastardy Order, dated 23 August 1832, naming Robert John HUGHES, mariner of this parish.
A document, dated 26 Mar 1852, relating to the proving of the Will of Thomas SCOBELL, also naming his widow, Jane Tennent Scobell
For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.
For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Penzance 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.
