CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

WENDRON

Wendron Church, 1997
© Marion Walker, Truro		 Wendron Church
© Steve Taylor, Essex

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Wendron is Gillian Hart, who can be contacted by Email.

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

Transcriptions of many parish records are included on this site, due to the hard work of previous OPCs, Paul Ganser & Kathy Bretthauer. You can access their transcriptions of Parish records, or search in our database.

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:

Parish Burial transcriptions are available here. For other Parish Register information, please see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently, GenUKI (link below) and the LDS website (library section).

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI. Link below.

OTHER:

1801: Note of Richd. Gerveys Grylls, Curate
"A very great Scarcity of Grain prevailed? in this & the preceding year. The Distresses of the Poor were very great."

Voters List:

  1. 1832
  2. 1834

Wills:

  3 Mar 1745, John PELLEW 21 Mar 1748, Thomas WILLIAMS
  4 Oct 1746, William PRYOR 28 Jun 1748, Francis ROWE

War Memorial Photographs, click thumbnails to enlarge.

Photographs by
Steve Taylor, Essex

 

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 Wendron 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:

Helston, Sithney, Crowan, Carnmenellis (post-1846), Stithians (pre-1846), Constantine, Mawgan in Meneage, Gunwalloe and Porthleven (post-1846).

SUGGESTED READING:

St Wenn and its People by John James. ISBN-10: 0956147607, ISBN-13: 978-0956147608

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Wendron (Gwendron)is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume II by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page 136). Also downloadable as a pdf.
  2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XV transcripts including Wendron (transcribed and in our database)