The parish of

POUNDSTOCK

The Online Parish Clerk for Poundstock is Judith Upton, 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, 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 Hearth Tax 1664, transcription here.

Voters' Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53
3. 1856/57
4. 1864/65

Wills:

1. 17 Sep 1743, Joan BURGOYNE
2. 30 Jun 1747, Edward SLOGET
3. 1 Jan 1749, Nicholas PENFOUND

To view a Bastardy Bond, dated 30 Jun 1746, naming William TURNER of this parish, click here.

Transcriptions of some MIs are available here.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Poundstock can be located at coordinates I - 9.

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:

St Gennys, Jacobstow, Week St Mary and Marhamchurch.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Poundstock 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 352). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XXV transcripts including Poundstock (transcribed and in our database). For the Contents page, keep clicking Next until page 8/184 appears.