The parish of

REDRUTH

Fore Street, Redruth, © 2005, Charles Winpenny	Church of St. Euny, ©2005, Charles Winpenny

The Online Parish Clerk for Redruth is Kathy Bretthauer, who can be contacted by Email.

The previous OPC has uploaded her transcriptions to a website.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP - the 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), which is updated frequently, and GenUKI. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.
 
The OPC currently has access to the following Parish records:-

Bishops' Transcripts from 1717 to approx. 1837 (baptisms, marriages and burials)
Register - marriage banns from 1885 for St. Andrew
Register - baptisms from 1878 for St. Uny
Register - burials from 1887 for St. Uny
School Admissions from 1885
Poor Law Union records from 1840

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see the Cornwall Towns & Parishes link on GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directory website.

OTHER:

1832 Voters List for the parish.

Baptisms after 1911 of people born during and before that year.

To view a Bastardy Bond, dated 8 May 1788, naming Richard WEBB, Anthony TREMELLEN and Francis ROGERS of this Parish, click here.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Redruth can be located at coordinates D - 3/4.

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:

Illogan, Treleigh (post-1871), Gwennap, St Day (post-1833), Lanner/Lannarth (post-1845) and Gwennap (pre-1833).

ONLINE BOOKS:

Redruth 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 380). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.