The parish of

FOWEY

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	1.Lugger Inn, Fore Street, 1888 2.The Harbour, from Hall Walk, 1890s 3.China Clay Docks, 1893 4.Troops, Fowey No. 2 R.E. Advance Guard, 5 Aug 1914

The OPC for Fowey is Sue Mutton, who can be contacted by Email.
 

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 and other resources, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently and GenUKI. The parish coverage page for C-PROP is here.

DIRECTORIES:

Fowey entries from the Post Office Directory for Cornwall, 1856

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

OTHER:

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53
3. 1856/57

Wills:

1. proved 11 Feb 1579, William DICKWOOD
2. dated 21 May 1740, Joan POMEROY
3. dated 10 Feb 1743, John WILLIAMS
4. dated 6 Mar 1745, Thomas MOULD
5. proved 16 Jan 1746, John GROSE, mariner
6. proved 6 Oct 1746, Thomas WHITTON
7. proved 7 Nov 1746, Jonas ROBERTS
8. dated 8 Jan 1751, John COLLUMBE
9. dated 30 Jun 1855, William BROKENSHAW

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Fowey can be located at coordinates H - 4.

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:

Tywardreath, Golant St Sampson and Lanteglos by Fowey.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Fowey is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume II by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page 36). Also downloadable as a pdf.
2. The Cornwall Register by John Wallis, A.M. F.S.S., then Vicar of Bodmin, printed 1847. If the in-built search produces no results, use the index pages (474-476) to find your parish of interest. Tables of statistics and other data can be found at the beginning of the book, starting at page n9.

The Parish Church
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