The parish of

SOUTH PETHERWIN

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:

The South Petherwin entries from the Post Office Directory for Cornwall, 1856

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

OTHER:

For a Bastardy Order, dated 6 August 1800 (fortieth year of the reign of George III), naming William MARTIN of this parish and Ann REED, click here.

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53
3. 1856/57
4. 1864/65

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. South Petherwin can be located at coordinates J - 7.

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 PARISH:

Lewannick, Trewen, St Thomas by Launceston, Launceston St Mary Magdalene, Lawhitton, and Lezant.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. South Petherwin 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 334). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XVII transcripts including South Petherwyn (South Petherwin) (transcribed and in our database).