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The parish of

STITHIANS

Stithians

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Stithians is Michael Bath who can be contacted by Email.
He is developing a  website for his resources.

For information about (and contact details for) the current parish 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 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:

Bastardy/Filiation Documents:

  1. dated 31 Jan 1786, naming Richard THOMAS and Richard THOMAS, Senior of this parish

Voters Lists:

  1. 1834

Wills:

  1. dated 30 Sep 1633, Edmund BATHE
  2. dated 22 Jan 1744/45, Thomas DONSTAN
  3. dated 12 Jun 1746, William REED

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 Stithians 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:

Wendron (pre-1846), Carnmenellis (post-1846), Pencoys (post-1881), Lanner (post-1845), Gwennap, Perranarworthal, St Gluvias, Mabe and Constantine.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Stithians is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume IV by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838. Also downloadable as a pdf.