The parish of

SENNEN

Sennen Cove, ©2004, G. Pritchard
 

SENNEN parish, in the Hundred of Penwith, is the most westerly parish in mainland Britain. Adjoining parishes are St Just in Penwith to the north. St Buryan to the east, St Levan south and 28 miles to the west is the parish of the Isles of Scilly sitting in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Parish includes Land's End, which attracts thousands of visitors each year. Tourism here has been going on for hundreds of years and the people of the parish have also changed quite a lot in that time, with families moving out and new ones moving in. This makes the parish, and census records, a goldmine of information. Hopefully you will find some "lost" ancestors hiding here.

The Online Parish Clerks for Sennen are George & Sandra Pritchard.

For information about (and contact details for) the current parish council, please see this website.
 
The items shown in the categories below, and miscellaneous items including articles on Sennen Mining, Fishing, Farming, Smuggling and Quakers, are available with just a click of your mouse.
 
We joined the OPC scheme when it was first set up and have, with the help of others, transcribed and placed on-line many parish records. Please see the list below. It does not cover all the information in our possession, however. If you would like information on a subject dealing with Sennen, or Cornwall, other than those shown below, please do contact us - George & Sandra.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Full transcripts of Census records 1841 – 1851 – 1861 – 1871 – 1881 – 1891 - 1901 are available on our website. Also, information can be found at COCP (the Cornwall Online Census Project), 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:

Transcriptions of many Parish Registers are on the OPC's website. For further Parish Register information and other resources, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP), which is updated frequently. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

Trade Directories 1852 – 1863 – 1878 – 1883 – 1893 – 1919; full transcripts are available on our website. For further information, see the Cornwall Towns & Parishes link on GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directory website.

OTHER:

See our website for

• Full transcripts of the Tithe Apportionment of 1838, including maps, lists of field numbers, and names; plus photos of dwellings and views linked to the lists
• The Sennen War Memorial photos and names, plus a list of those from Sennen who saw service in the First and Second World Wars
• Cornwall Subsidies 1545, The 1569 Muster Roll, 1661 Free & Voluntary, 1662 Hearth Tax

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 Sennen 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:

St Just in Penwith, St Buryan and St Levan.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Sennen 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 428). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol III transcripts including Sennen (transcribed and in our database)

MORE PHOTOGRAPHS:

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The Parish Church Exterior (1)	The Parish Church Exterior 2	The Parish Church Interior	The Parish Church Pulpit	Gravestone of Dionysius Williams
All photographs © Anthea Augustson