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The parish ofST WENNThe volunteer OPC for St Wenn will be available for research help soon. PARISH INFORMATIONCENSUS: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: Wills:
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. |