Bodmin Parish Registers

[Phoenix]

Does anyone know if the early marriages are online anywhere?

Page 1 of this book shows the pedigree of William Achym: http://ukga.org/england/Cornwall/visitations/index.html

The bits in italics seem to be from c 1573 and can be trusted (as much as anyone's memory can be!)

The additions say that William married in 1559 in Bodmin.

Now, when William made his will in 1585, four of his sons were underage and his eldest son was abt 19 when William died in 1590.

As William had a father William (and a brother William) my gut feeling is that the entry may refer to his father remarrying and that William's marriage was rather nearer 1570.

[kiterunner]

It's on FamilySearch:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR7Q-92LV?i=322&wc=3CB7-Y4M%3A138123201%2C138171401%2C1582891704%3Fcc%3D17 69414&cc=1769414
(image number 323)

but there is no extra info about that 1559 marriage (Oct 29) except for the names.

If you browse through looking for other entries, take note of the very first page which says that the burials were "ante-dated" by 1 year!

[Phoenix]

Thanks, Kite!

So all the girls were probably older than Thomas. Such a pity that the Pelynt registers don't survive. They could answer a few questions!

[Terri]

Have you tried Cornwall OPC site? There seems to be quite a few records for Pelynt on there.
http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/

[Phoenix]

Thanks, Terri. That is a brilliant site, but I think the early Pelynt records must be lost.

[kiterunner]

The Cornwall Record Office online catalogue is not the easiest to search, but since it has an entry P173/1 Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, Pelynt Parish Church 1678-2003

I would imagine that the pre-1678 records are lost.

Edit - also, they only list Pelynt Bishop's Transcripts from 1677 - 1812.

There is an OPC for Pelynt whose email address is linked to on this page:
http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Par_new/n_p/pelynt.php

[Phoenix]

That's what I thought, Kite.

There is supposed to be a tudor MI in the church, with the face so strangely carved that it is suggested it is a portrait of a man who has had a stroke.

The family fell upon troublesome times in the early Jacobean period and the name failed.