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THE PARISH OF

DULOE

 

St. Keyne's Well, Duloe parish, from the Lima Daily News, [Lima, Ohio, USA newspaper] 16 May 1898
contributed by Rita Bone Kopp

 
St. Keynes's Well

The well of St. Keyne is perhaps the best known of all the many holy wells with which Cornwall is supplied. It is situated beside a road in the parish of Duloe, midway between Liskeard and Looe, in an exceedingly picturesque situation, overhung by the dense foliage of a great elm. St. Keyne was one of the many Irish saints who in early times settled in Cornwall, and the legend runs that she presented this never-failing spring to the inhabitants of Duloe in return for their dedication of the parish church to her. But St. Keyne's well is best known to the world at large from Southey's ballad, which has given fame to the legend that the husband or wife who first drinks of its water after marriage shall have precedence ever after. The rustic of whom Southey tells, however, was not sharp enough

"I hastened as soon as the wedding was o'er
And left my good wife in the porch,

But, i' faith, she had been far wiser than I,
For she took a bottle to church."

The full version of the ballad can be found online by searching for 'southey st keyne'.

 

 

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PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) which is almost 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 searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently, GenUKI (link below) and the LDS website (library section).

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI. Link below.

OTHER:

Indentures and Other Documents:

  1. tow Indenture, dated 19 Aug 1808 and 20 Aug 1808, regarding property in St Neot but mentioning Mary FOOKES, William FOOKES and the Rev. William FOOKES of this parish.

  2. Particulars of an auction of Crook's Ball Farm, tenant Richard POLLARD, on behalf of the estate of Matthew BUNNY, on 8 Jan 1889.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Duloe can be located at coordinates I - 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:

Pelynt, Lanreath, Herodsfoot, St Keyne, Liskeard, Morval, Looe and Talland.