CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

ST MICHAEL CAERHAYS

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The volunteer OPC (Genealogy) for St Michael Caerhayes is Shirley Cattermole, who can be contacted by Email

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

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Please visit COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project), which is complete for 1841 to 1891 and validated, FreeCens at Rootsweb - both are free, searchable databases - or check GenUKI for other alternatives.

REGISTERS:

For Parish Register information, please see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI (link below)  or visit the University of Leicester's Directories website, which has many directories online to view for free.

OTHER:

Voters Lists for 1851/52, 1852/53 and 1856/57 for this parish.

Wills:

  1. dated 1 May 1776, Simon SLADE
  2. dated 14 Sep 1743, Simon SLADE
  3. dated 8 Jun 1776, Elizabeth SLADE

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 Caerhayes 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:

Veryan, Cuby, St Ewe and Gorran.

ONLINE BOOKS:

St Michael Caerhays is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838. Also downloadable as a pdf from here.