CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

WARBSTOW

Warbstow
The Parish Church
© Karen Start, 2002

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Warbstow is Dallas Manicom 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, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently and GenUKI. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

A note in the Baptisms Register for the time period between 1872 and 1875.
"No baptism during this interval in consequence of my referral, excepting in case of sickness or other emergency. 2 baptisms privately."

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see the University of Leicester's Historical Directories website.

OTHER:

To view an indenture, dated 5 Aug 1854, involving land known as Hips Moor in the Parish of Warbstow and mentioning John SHEERS, click here.

Voters Lists:

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

Wills:

  1. dated 21 Oct 1864, the Will of Thomas CANN of North Petherwin concerning land in Warbstow

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Warbstow can be located at coordinates I - 8.

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:

Otterham, Jacobstow, Week St Mary, North Petherwin, Tremaine and Treneglos.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Warbstow 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. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XXV transcripts including Warbstow (transcribed and in our database). For the Contents page, keep clicking Next until page 8/184 appears.