CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parishes of

PENZANCE

St John, St Mary and St Paul

The Parish Church of St Mary
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Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Penzance is Susan Evans Shaw, who can be contacted by Email.
 
(For information about, and contact details for, the current town 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:

Bastardy/Filiation Documents:

  1. 25 Apr 1785, naming Sampson RUNNALLS, Richard RUNNALLS and George EVA of this Parish
  2. 23 August 1832, naming Robert John HUGHES, mariner of this parish.

Wills:

  20 Mar 1742, William JOHN 15 Apr 1747, Walter COUCH
  7 Dec 1742, Henry TAYLOR 27 Jun 1747, Edward BETTY
  1 Feb 1744, John TEMBEY 10 Sep 1748, Andrew VIGURS
  11 Sep 1746, John CUNNACK 7 Sep 1840, Uriah TONKIN
  3 Nov 1746, Peter QUICK 15 Jan 1849, Benjamin PENTREATH
  6 Feb 1747, Thomas TEAGUE 26 Mar 1852, Thomas SCOBELL (document relating to Will)

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

MAPS:

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.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Madron and Gulval

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Penzance 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.
  2. The History of Mount's Bay, comprising Saint Michael's Mount, Marazion, Penzance, Newlyn, Mousehole, &c. &c., published in 1820 by J. Thomas
  3. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XII transcripts including Madron with Penzance (transcribed and in our database)