The parish of

WARLEGGAN

Warleggan Parish Church
© David Coppin

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Warleggan is John Keast who can be contacted by Email.

For information about (and contact details for) the current parish meeting, please see this website.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

A transcription of the 1901 Census for Warleggan is available here.

Other 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 Parish Register information, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently and GenUKI. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

Transcriptions are available for the years stated below:

1. 1856 Post Office Directory of Cornwall
2. 1873 Post Office Directory for Cornwall
3. 1883 Kelly's Directory
4. 1889 Kelly's Directory
5. 1893 Kelly's Directory
6. 1897 Kelly's Directory
7. 1902 Kelly's Directory
8. 1906 Kelly's Directory
9. 1910 Kelly's Directory
10. 1914 Kelly's Directory
11. 1939 Kelly's Directory

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

OTHER:

Click the relevant links to view the information below:

1. People & property - various sources.
2. Warleggan Parish law breakers
3. Apprenticeship Indentures, naming the child and the person to whom indentured.

Indentures:

1. dated 10 Mar 1639, involving Samuel HILL of Warleggan.
2. dated 22 Apr 1763, involving Elizabeth ANDREW and Grace ANDREW.
3. dated 25 Mar 1818, concerning property in Warleggan and mentioning Henry PEARCE of this parish.
4. dated 23 Sep 1858, concerning property in Warleggan and mentioning William GROWDEN, William WERRY and John LEMIN.

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52, 1853/54 & 1864/65

Wills:

1. dated 29 Aug 1733, Robart MOTTEEN
2. dated 28 Apr 1838, Henry PEARSE
3. dated 23 Jun 1859, Petherick BUNT

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

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Warleggan can be located at coordinates I - 6.

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:

Cardinham, Blisland, Temple, St Neot and Bradock.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Warleggan is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume IV (as Warleggon) by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838. 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.