CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

TRENEGLOS

Treneglos Parish Church Treneglos Parish Church
The Parish Church
© Glenda Garrelts Mattes		 View from the road
© Glenda Garrelts Mattes

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Treneglos is Christopher Dean, who can be contacted by Email.

For information about (and contact details for) the current parish council, please see this website.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP (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 University of Leicester's Historical Directories website.

OTHER:

Bastardy/Filiation Documents:

  1. dated 30 Jun 1746, naming Edmund TURNER of this parish
  2. dated 16 Jun 1755, naming Jone MARK, Antoney, Robert and William GIMBLET

Voters Lists:

  1. 1851/52. 1852/53, 1856/57 & 1864/65

For 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 Treneglos 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.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Treneglos 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.
  2. The Cornwall Register by John Wallis, A.M. F.S.S., then Vicar of Bodmin, printed 1847. If the in-built search produces no results, use the index pages (474-476) to find your parish of interest. Tables of statistics and other data can be found at the beginning of the book, starting at page n9.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Warbstow, Tremaine, Tresmere, Laneast, St Clether and Davidstow.

PHOTOGRAPHS:

Treneglos Gravestones Coach House Treneglos
Weathered Gravestones in the Churchyard
(Most are in similar condition)
© Glenda Garrelts Mattes		 The Old Coach House, Treneglos
(Opposite the Church)
© Glenda Garrelts Mattes