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The parish of

PILLATON

Pillaton Church
The Parish Church
© Maggie Watkinson

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Pillaton is Gina Furze, who can be contacted by Email.
 
For information about (and contact details for) the current parish 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), GenUKI and the LDS website, Library section. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

The village and parish of Pillaton has a website, which includes a growing history section.

Bastardy / Filiation Documents:

  1. dated 2 Sep 1783, naming Mary BENNETT of this Parish and John BARTLETT of Callington
  2. dated 24 Sep 1799, naming Mary FOWELL and Wm. CUNDY, both of Pillaton.
  3. dated 19 Jun 1804, naming Patience MARTIN of this Parish and George TAMBLING, junr. of Morval.
  4. dated 3 Jun 1818, naming Jenney STEPHENS of this Parish and William DAW of St Ive.

Voters Lists:

  1. 1851/52
  2. 1852/53
  3. 1864/65

Wills:

  16 Dec 1741, George Haynes 3 May 1750, Barbara ATKINS

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

MAPS:

For a zoomable and printable map of Cornwall please visit Cornwall Council’s mapping website. To see the Parish boundaries, click on the Layers Tab for Government Boundaries.

For maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

To enjoy a "walk" around this parish, search for Pillaton at http://maps.google.co.uk/, then drag the person icon from above the zoom commands and place it at a specific location on the map.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Quethiock, St Mellion, St Dominick, Landulph, Botus Fleming and St Stephens by Saltash.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Pillaton 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 344). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.
  2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XVII transcripts including Pillaton (transcribed and in our database).
  3. Venning's New Century Postal Directory of 20 Parishes in East Cornwall, published 1901. Included several pages of advertisements from local businesses, as well as being a parish directory