CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive


The parish of

ST JUST IN PENWITH

St Just in Penwith Botallack Mine
The Parish Church
photograph courtesy of Mark Hattam/Paul Ganser
Part of the Botallack Mine complex
© Karen Start 2002
   

The Online Parish Clerk for St Just in Penwith is Bob Bolitho, 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 other Parish Register information, please see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated regularly and GenUKI. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

For a plan of Nanjulian and Gorland Farms, plus an auction cover dated 16 Jun 1893, click here (600KB pdf).

For information regarding History, Population, and much more, visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St Just in Penwith can be located at coordinates A - 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:

Pendeen (post-1849), Sancreed, St Buryan and Sennen.

St Just in Penwith 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 282). Also downloadable as a pdf.