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The parish of

PHILLACK

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Phillack is John Smith, who can be contacted by Email and who maintains a website.

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, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP). The parish coverage page is here.

A footnote by Rev. Hockin in the Baptisms Register laments that there were more than 40 deaths from smallpox in 1851, mostly young children, and not a single person to whom the disease proved fatal had been vaccinated.

He also notes that 16 deaths took place in Jan 1863, mainly attributable to measles & whooping cough.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see the University of Leicester's website of Historical Directories or GenUKI.

OTHER:

Voters List for 1832, election of Knights of the Shire.

Some photographs of gravestones are available from the OPC, Crowan, click here for a list.

To view the transcription of a Bastardy Bond, dated 8 Dec 1746, naming Henry HANCOCK of this parish, click here.

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

Wills:

  10 May 1748, John CLEMANS 19 Aug 1749, John DAVIES

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Phillack can be located at coordinates C - 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:

Lelant, Gwithian, Gwinear, Hayle St Elwyn (post-1888) and St Erth (pre-1888).

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Phillack is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page 338). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.
  2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol II transcripts including Phillack (transcribed and in our database)