CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive

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 volunteers OPCs for this parish are Robert and Mary Lyle, who can be contacted by email.

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:

Parish Register Look-ups are available from the following documents: Baptisms 1679 - 1832 (Ref. Fowey History Group), Marriages 1568 - 1812 from Phillimores, Marriage Banns 1803 - 1970 and Burials 1638 - 1921 (Ref Fowey History Group).

For other Parish Register information, please see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently, GenUKI (link below) and the LDS website (library section).

DIRECTORIES:

Directory Look-ups are available for the years 1700 - 1971 (almost 9,000 names).

OTHER:

To view a Bastardy Bond, dated 29 July 1802, naming William BRYANT of the Borough of Fowey, click here.

Fowey’s 'Roll of Honour', displayed on plaques in the town hall, includes the Fowey men who served in WWI 1914-1918 and names those who were killed. Transcription available here.

We can do lookups in Isabel Pickering’s book titled 'Some Goings On!'. This is a selection of newspaper articles about Fowey, Polruan and Lanteglos-by-Fowey. There are many very interesting excerpts and the book is indexed by names and places, so we can do lookups for you. Also, Isabel has copies of her book for sale. Email her at Isabel@lescrow.fslife.co.uk. She has also written two other books on Polruan and Lanteglos-by-Fowey which are available for sale as well.

Photos - We have quite a few old photos of Fowey and are able to email you a picture of 'your ancestor’s street' or other site in Fowey.

For more 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.