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The parish of

REDRUTH

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

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

There is currently no OPC (Genealogy) for this parish.

A previous OPC has uploaded her transcriptions to 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 - 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.

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:

  13 Sep 1665, Henry THURLBY 12 Apr 1747, Richard THOMAS
  11 Dec 1742, Jane PENROSE 2 Feb 1748, Ann RICHARDS
  10 May 1746, John CARTER 6 May 1748, William BONE
  8 Jun 1746, Matthew PRISK  

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:

  1. The parish registers of Redruth in Cornwall, 1560-1716, published by Hoblyn and Tayler, 1894.
  2. 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.
  3. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XIX transcripts including Redruth (transcribed and in our database).