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The parish of

PERRANARWORTHAL


Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The OPC for Perranarworthal is John Warren, 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 the University of Leicester's website of Historical Directories or GenUKI.

OTHER:

Click on the relevant link to view:-

  1. people of Perranarworthal in Tax and Muster Rolls of the Tudor period (1522 - 1601).
  2. people of Perranarworthal in the Stuart period (1618 - 1684).
  3. Protestation Returns for 1641, Perranarworthal..
  4. a transcription of a Manorial Survey of Perranarworthal, dating from about the 1720s.
  5. Poor Law contributions 1729
  6. transcribed Vestry Minutes (1844-61) in either .xls or .csv format.
  7. the 1834 Voters' List for the parish.
  8. an indenture, dated 1 May 1827, click here.

Wills:

  1. James SARAH, dated 15 May 1743

For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Perranarworthal can be located at coordinates E - 3.

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:

Stithians, Gwennap, Kea (pre-1847), Baldhu (post-1847), Feock (pre-1873), Devoran (post-1873), Mylor and St Gluvias.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Perranarworthal (St Piran) 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.