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The parish of

MENHENIOT

Menheniot Church
The Parish Church
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Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk for Menheniot is Sue Mutton, who can be contacted by Email.

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

DIRECTORIES:

Menheniot entries in

  1. The Post Office Directory, 1856.
  2. The Post Office Directory, 1873.
  3. Kelly's Directory, 1883.
  4. Kelly's Directory, 1889.

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

OTHER:

The Menheniot entry from Magna Britain : volume 3 by Daniel & Samuel Lysons, 1814 can be viewed here.

For an Indenture, dated 15 Nov 1788, concerning Davey's Trewint in this parish, click here.

Wills:

  1. proved 26 Jun 1747, John HONY
  2. proved 6 Feb 1761, Joseph SOBY
  3. proved 2 Sep 1763, Hannah MUTTON
  4. proved 19 Oct 1781, Margrett SOBY
  5. dated 9 Feb 1810, George HICKS
  6. proved 20 Nov 1856, Richard KELLY

Settlement Papers:

  1. dated 1848/49, account for the resettlement of Ann PAWLY and family between Sheviock and Menheniot

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Menheniot 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:

Liskeard, St Cleer, St Ive, Quethiock, Tideford and Morval.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Menheniot is included in

  1. 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.
  2. The Cornwall Register by John Wallis, 1847. A brief summary of the parish starting on page 345, plus entries in the various tables found throughout the book (use the search function). A pdf is available here.
  3. A Compendium of the History of Cornwall (1880) by John Jeremiah Daniell. A brief summary on page n167 and other references throughout the book.
     

Menheniot
Menheniot Almshouses
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