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The parish of

LISKEARD

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Liskeard is Frances Kenshole, who can be contacted by Email.
 
(For information about, and contact details for, the current town council, please see this website.)

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.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

Legal Documents:

  1. an Indenture, dated 30 May 1787, naming John TREHAWKE of Liskeard.

Voters Lists:

  1. 1851/52 for the parish
  2. 1851/52 for the borough
  3. 1852/53 for the parish
  4. 1852/53 for the borough
  5. 1864/65 for the parish
  6. 1864/65 for the borough

Wills:

  1. dated 7 Aug 1689, Thomas WILLCOCKE
  2. dated 3 Dec 1703, Jacob MOTTON
  3. dated 5 Feb 1707, John ROOSE/ROUSE
  4. dated 18 Sep 1735, Joseph FLEMING
  5. dated 14 Jul 1741, Samuel CURTEYS
  6. dated 26 Dec 1741, Samuell GOVET(T)
  7. dated 1 Aug 1744, John REYNOLDS, mariner
  8. dated 25 Jul 1745, Peter WILLIAMS
  9. dated 21 Apr 1746, Abel WERRY
  10. dated 5 Jul 1746, Ann OSBORNE
  11. dated 21 Aug 1746, Merriam CANNING
  12. dated 13 Oct 1746, Benjamin SOBEE/SOBY
  13. dated 13 May 1747, Theophilus MOON
  14. dated 28 Oct 1747, John WILKEY
  15. dated 24 Sep 1783, John POMERY, includes later codicil and indenture
  16. dated 10 Jun 1845, Ebenezer EDEY

Other transcribed documents (covering multiple parishes including Liskeard) link from here.

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

MAPS:

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

St Pinnock, St Neot, St Cleer, Menheniot, St Keyne and Herodsfoot.

SUGGESTED READING:

Books available through the Cornwall Libraries:

  1. The History of the Borough of Liskeard by John Allen 1856 and revised by William Paynter in 1967. (The original version is available online here or here. Click on the first page link to view the whole book, page by page.)
  2. Liskeard Bygones by Jack Haworth
  3. Liskeard and its People by Bernard Deacon
  4. Liskeard Seen Through the Censuses by William Harwood

ONLINE BOOKS:

Liskeard is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838. Also downloadable as a pdf from here.