CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

ST WENN

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

There is no OPC for this parish.

If you would like to volunteer, please contact our co-ordinator Myra Cordrey by Email.
 
In the meantime, Blanche Charles has offered to help with look-ups.

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, 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:

Voters Lists:

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

A Bastardy Bond, dated 5 Oct 1813, naming Jane BROKENSHIRE and Henry and Samuel BRENTON (all of St Wenn) concerning a child, chargeable to the Parish of Roach (Roche).

To view a poem, dated 13 April 1840, by Joshua WHITE of St Wenn. Title "A true Account in Verse of the Latter Life and Ignominious Death of Wm. & Jas. LIGHTFOOT, of the Parish of St. Breock." (Slow to load for dial-up connections)

A book, St Wenn and its People by John James, is available for purchase. (ISBN 10: 0956147607, ISBN 13: 9780956147608)

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St Wenn can be located at coordinates G - 5.

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:

St Columb Major, St Breock, Withiel and Roche.

ONLINE BOOKS:

St Wenn 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.