The parish of

CROWAN

St. Crewenna Church, Crowan
© Sue Crispin

The Online Parish Clerk for Crowan is Sue Crispin, who can be contacted by Email.

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

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 and GenUKI.

OTHER:

A Voters List for 1832 is available here.

Some photographs of gravestones are available from the OPC, click here for a list. Some lo-res examples link from the list.

To view the transcription of a Bastardy Order, dated 23 Mar 1841, naming Elizabeth WOOLCOCK, Thomas MATTHEWS and Thomas MATTHEWS of this parish, click here.

To view a transcription of the Will of John EUSTIS, dated 15 Aug 1692, click here.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Crowan can be located at coordinates D - 2. 

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 Erth, Gwinear, Treslothan (post 1845), Carnmenellis (Post-1846), Wendron, Sithney and Godolphin (post-1848).

ONLINE BOOKS:

Crowan is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume I by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page n300). Also downloadable as a pdf.