The parish of

WITHIEL

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		St Clement Church Withiel	Alternative view of St Clement
		The Altar	The Font
The Church Porch	Withiel War Memorial	Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel Ruthernbridge	Sunday School Ruthernbridge
Tablets on the wall of the Sunday School read 1. This stone was laid in grateful memory of Joseph Sidney Pedlar, founder of Ruthern Sunday School 1838? by his wife and children 1828?-1852? 2. This stone was laid in memory of Gideon & Elizabeth Hodge

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Withiel is Blanche Charles, who can be contacted by Email and who maintains a website.

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.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Settlement Papers:

1. 15 Jan 1759, John VAGUE

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1853/54
3. 1864/65

Wills:

1. dated 21 Dec 1887, Reginald Frederick VYVYAN

For further 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 Withiel 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:

St Wenn, St Breock, Bodmin, Lanivet and Roche.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Withiel 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.