Cornwall/Kernow

Cornwall is to be found on the most south westerly tip of England. With it's affinity with the sea, Cornwall folklore is rife with tales of pirates and smugglers. The beauty of Cornwall is typified by Bodmin Moor, Land's End peninsula, and St Michael's Mount. Main products from the county are tin, mined since the Bronze Age, electronics, kaolin, fish and spring flowers. Cornwall is the birth place of Sir John Betjeman, the late Poet Laureate, Sir Humphrey Davy, inventor of the miner's safety lamp, and Daphne Du Maurier the novelist.

County town: Truro (was Bodmin) Other major towns: Camborne, Redruth, St Austell, Penzance Cornwall Places of Worship Regional Projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• Cornwall Record Office

• Cornwall Family History Society

• Cornwall Libraries

• Cornwall Look-up Exchange

• Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

• Cornish Ancestors and Decendants

• 1871 Cornwall Census

• Churches in Cornwall

• Bal Maidens & Mining Women Women at the mines of Cornwall & Devon, including Database of over 24,000 named bal maidens, plus other pages on mining women worldwide.

• Calumet Hecla Mine Applications Employment records from Calumet Hecla Mine, Michigan, USA, of people who were born in Cornwall or had Cornish parents

• Cornwall Online Census Project

• Cornish Association of New South Wales - Wesleyan Baptisms at Byng (Cornish Settlement) 1843-1898

• Cornish Cemeteries

• Kelly's 1873 Directory of Cornwall

• Cornish Forefathers

• Cornish 19th Century Marriages (incomplete)

• Mines and Miners of Cornwall

• Cornish Mining Index

• Cornish Mines

• People born in Cornwall who died elsewhere

• A Cornish Sourcebook

• Cornwall Surnames - Cornish-L Surname Interests List

• Meanings of Cornish Surnames

• Southwest England Genealogical Indices

• Stone and Quarry Men of the West Country

• West Country Newspapers

• The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser newspaper abstracts and extracts

• Cornish Wills Index 1690-1859 (incomplete)

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Breage Baptisms pre-1827

• Breage and Godolphin Resources

• Calstock Online Parish Clerk

• Camborne Online Parish Clerk

• Cawsand, Kingsand and Millbrook - Village Family Tree

• Germoe, St Hilary, St Michael's Mount and Marazion Online Parish Clerk

• Gwinear Online Parish Clerk

• Kea Cornwall Parish Records

• The Coryns of Kenwyn and the Corins of Gulval includes some Memorial Inscriptions

• Lelant

• Lynher Parishes History Site - St Ive, Linkinhorne and South Hill

• Mawgan in Meneage Online Parish Clerk

• The Meneage Peninsula

• Newquay Old Cornwall Society

• Penryn, Cornwall Historical and Genealogical Information

• Polperro Family History

• St Allen, St Newlyn East, Perranzabuloe & Withiel Online Parish Resources

• St Austell, Cornwall Genealogy and Historical Website

• St Cleer Dissenters' Chapel - includes Cemetery Records

• St Enoder Parish Information Pages

• St Erth, Cornwall

• St Illogan Parish Records

• St Keverne Parish Records Index

• St Stephen in Brannel Genealogy Pages

• Week St Mary Online Parish Clerk

• The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser Newspaper Abstracts and Extracts

• West Penwith Resources

Maps and Photographs

• Cornwall Photo Image Bank

• Photos of Cornwall

Books of local interest

Register Office

NB: Copy Certificates: Cornwall appears to have centralised their operations to Truro

The address is:

Registration Certificate Applications
PO Box 94
Truro
TR1 9AZ

• Cornwall Register Offices: Cornwall County Council - Register Offices

St Austell District

The Register Office
Council Offices
12 Carlyon Road
St AusTel: l
PL25 4LD
Tel: 01726 68974
EMAIL: staustellregistars@cornwall.gov.uk

Bodmin/Camelford District

The Register Office
Lyndhurst
St Nicholas Street
Bodmin
PL31 1AG
Tel: 01208 73677
EMAIL: bodminregistrars@cornwall.gov.uk

Camborne/Redruth District

The Register Office
Roskear
Camborne
TR14 8DN
Tel: 01209 612924
EMAIL: camborneregistrars@cornwall.gov.uk

Falmouth District

The Register Office
Skol Goth
Albany Place
Falmouth
Tel: 01326 312606

St Germans District

Saltash Register Office
The Register Office
PlougasTel: Drive
Saltash
PL12 6DL
Tel: 01752 842624

EMAIL: saltashregistrars@cornwall.gov.uk

Kerrier District

Helston Register Office
The Register Office
Isaac House
Tyacke Road
Helston
TR13 8RR
Tel: 01326 562848
Fax: 01326 574392

EMAIL: helstonregistrars@cornwall.gov.uk

Launceston District

The Register Office
Hendra
Dunheved Road
Launceston
PL15 9JG
Tel: 01566 772464

Liskeard District

The Register Office
Graylands
Dean Street
Liskeard
PL14 4AH
Tel: 01579 343442

Penzance District

The Register Office
Alphington House
Alverton Place
Penzance
TR18 4JJ
Tel: 01736 330093

EMAIL: penzanceregistrars@cornwall.gov.uk

Stratton District

Bude Register Office
The Parkhouse Centre
Bude
EX23 8LF
Tel: 01288 353209

EMAIL: buderegistrars@cornwall.gov.uk

Truro District

The Register Office
Dalvenie House
New County Hall
Treyew Road
Truro
TR1 3AY
Tel: 01872 322241

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

• St. Ives Archives Weekly Olde Crone Holden

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• East Cornwall Miss Dynamite
• Hayle Olde Crone Holden
• St Ives Olde Crone Holden
• WEST Cornwall (ie south west of, and including Truro) Olde Crone Holden

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