The parish of

REDRUTH

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

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) 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.

Wills:

1. dated 11 Dec 1742, Jane PENROSE
2. dated 8 Jun 1746, Matthew PRISK
3. dated 12 Apr 1747, Richard THOMAS

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 Redruth 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:

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

ONLINE BOOKS:

The parish registers of Redruth in Cornwall, 1560-1716, published by Hoblyn and Tayler, 1894.

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.