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The parish of

RUAN LANIHORNE

The Online Parish Clerk for Ruan Lanihorne is Carol Hughes, who can be contacted by email.

Carol maintains a website for the parish.

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 and other resources, 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:

For transcriptions of some Monumental Inscriptions, click here. There is an index of headstones and a churchyard plan available at the church.

Wills:

  1. An Indenture concerning the Estate of Roger DANIELL, dated May 1605.
  2. The Will of Thomas DANIELL, dated 23 Jul 1608 and 1609.
  3. The Will and Inventory of Goods of Richard DANIELL, dated 15 Sep 1622.
  4. An Indenture and Inventory of Goods, concerning the Estate of Thomas CROCKER, dated 24 Feb 1630.
  5. The Will and Inventory of Goods of Parking CROCKER, dated 1631.
  6. The Will and Inventory of Goods of William CROCKER, dated 18 Apr 1661.
  7. The Will and Inventory of Henry CROCKER, dated 2 Jan 1664.
  8. An Indenture and Inventory of Goods, concerning the Estate of James CROCKER, dated 17 May 1666.
  9. An Indenture and Inventory of Goods, concerning the Estate of Henry CROCKER, dated 31 January 1697.
  10. An Indenture concerning the Will of Samuel BLAMY, dated 17 Feb 1729.
  11. An  Indenture concerning the Will of James BLAMY, dated 27 Apr 1730.
  12. The Will and Inventory of Goods of Thomas DANIEL, dated 9 Apr 1743.
  13. An  Indenture concerning the Will of Mary BLAMEY, dated 15 July 1760.
  14. An  Indenture and Inventory of Goods, concerning the Estate of Nicholas BOHENNA, dated 14 Aug 1761.
  15. An Indenture concerning, and the Will of, Richard DINGLE, the latter dated 27 Mar 1765.
  16. The Will of Nicholas BLAMY, dated 10 May 1790.
  17. The Will of Samuel BLAMY, dated 23 May 1796.
  18. The Will of John BLAMEY, dated 7 Nov 1801.
  19. An Indenture concerning the Estate of Richard DINGLE, dated 20 May 1811
  20. An Indenture concerning the Estate of Richard DANIEL, dated 28 Jun 1811.
  21. The Will of Samuel BLAMEY, dated 28 Mar 1827, possibly of this parish.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Ruan Lanihorne can be located at coordinates F - 3.

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:

Philleigh, St Michael Penkevil, Lamorran, Cornelly and Veryan.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Ruan Lanihorne 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 402). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.