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LANTEGLOS by CAMELFORD

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Lanteglos by Camelford is Gwynneth Wakeham, who is currently unavailable. In the meantime, Sue Mutton offers help with research.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP (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, the parish coverage page is here.

I have a Cornwall Marriage Index, from 1585, a marriage index from 1813 - 1837, and a Burial Index from 1813 - 1837 to use for lookups.
I have a transcription of the Camelford Circuit United Methodist Baptisms, 1863 - 1900, which includes St Teath, St Minver, St Mabyn and Tintagel; the Camelford Wesleyan Circuit Baptisms, 1837 - 1900, which includes Davidstow, and the Camelford Wesleyan Chapel Burials 1805 - 1900 - all of which I'd be glad to check upon request.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Indentures and Other Documents:

  1. An Indenture, dated 1 Nov 1676, concerning Matthews Park, naming John MOLLIS of Michaelstow and John PEARSE of Lanteglos by Camelford.
  2. A tripartite Indenture, dated 1 Feb 1743, naming Mary Pomeroy, John JOHNSON and Edward COCK.
  3. An Indenture, dated 21 Jul 1777, naming John MARSHALL of the Borough of Camelford.
  4. A document involving tenants of the Manor of Helston Trigg, including Samuel BROWN, William SLOGGATT, Francis LOBB and George MARTYN, dated 23 Jun 1819.
  5. An Indenture dated 29 Sep 1837, naming John Clode BRADDON of this Parish.
  6. For details of an auction of farmland, dated 29 Jul 1896 and naming John NICHOLL, John LANE and N. STEPHENS, click here.

Voters Lists:

  1. 1851/52
  2. 1852/53
  3. 1856/57
  4. 1864/65

Wills:

  1. dated 12 Mar 1771, the Will of Howard SECCOMBE
  2. dated 14 Mar 1791, an Indenture/Will for Joseph POPE
  3. Document, dated 26 Oct 1795, relating to a dispute over the Will of William HOCKEN and naming Jno. MARSHALL as a defendant
  4. extracted 17 Apr 1807, the Will of John SECCOMBE
  5. dated 24 Sep 1818, Samuel COCK
  6. dated 23 Jan 1821, Richard MARTIN
  7. dated 17 Apr 1837, Edward SECCOMBE
  8. dated 17 Apr 1860, Henry LANGDON
  9. dated 11 May 1860, Nancy LANGDON
  10. dated 20 Apr 1900, probate record for the Will of John EVELYN

Other documents mentioning several parishes, including Lanteglos by Camelford, can be found here.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Lanteglos by Camelford can be located at coordinates H - 7.

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 Teath, Tintagel, Minster, Davidstow, Advent and Michaelstow.

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Lanteglos by Camelford 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 400). 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.