Cornwall parish register images - FamilySearch Record Search

[kiterunner]

There are also a couple of Devon parishes included.

Hopefully this link will take you to the database, then click on the name of the county you want and it will give you the list of parishes.

Cornwall parish registers (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html?datestamp=1199743328340#w=0&p=waypoint&s=waypointsOnly&c=fs%3A1769414)

Wish I had some Cornish ancestors to search for!

[ElizabethHerts]

:):) Many thanks, KiteRunner! I have found the burial for my 4xgt grandfather Henry Quintrell in St Blazey in 1841! I have the certificate.

Now to find his wife and all the baptisms! Oh, I shall be busy as all my Quintrells came from Cornwall originally.

[ElizabethHerts]

I've got Jane Quintrell's burial printed off now and I have just printed their marriage entry for 1783!

[Joy Dean]

It is useful, but please don't forget the OPCs (online parish clerks) who, I believe, will still have a useful role to play in helping with research.

[Nell]

The OPC for St Columb & area started me off brilliantly when I was tracking my Cornish forebears with a 5 page email of them going back to 1650!

But its been great to look on familysearch and see the actual entries!

[Joy Dean]

It is indeed :)

Just don't want them to feel they will not still be needed - OH is one for a few parishes, I may or may not have mentioned that before.

[ElizabethHerts]

Joy, I love Cornwall OPC but unfortunately they don't cover St Blazey where my ancestors were.

[Joy Dean]

Ah, more volunteers are needed then :)
Search for Christopher Dean, OPC, and you'll find which parishes he covers, just in case your family come from his area.

[ElizabethHerts]

I am in heaven, having found and still finding my Quintrells, Daddows, Bennetts et al! I have found a couple of marriages I hadn't got and it is just bliss to have the images.

[Nell]

I'm in heaven too, although I am just confirming info I already had, its wonderful to actually see the original entries, and of course there's often a little more detail in the registers themselves.

[ElizabethHerts]

I have spent more or less all day saving and printing entries! I know they will disappear before long so I'm trying to do as much research as I can.

For me this means pursuing the female line too, which is why I'm so busy. Before 1820 a large branch of my family would have been in Cornwall and I'm pushing backwards!

[Durham Lady]

I've picked up quite a few of my family from the site.
If anyone has lost Worcester or Wiltshire men in the 1700 and 1800's, there were a lot of them in the foot regiments and Militia stationed in Cornwall and marrying local girls in Kenwyn.

[Nell]

I'm having a great time, got back beyond gt x 3 grandfather to another 2 generations and found some extra baptisms and marriages and burials for people. Yippee!

[ElizabethHerts]

I have found so many branches now, Nell.

I have just found a probable error in the burial register for St Austell!

NBI 3 and the burial record give the burial of "William Rundle Snell" on 15 March 1835 aged 1. I was very interested as the sister of my 3x gt grandfather married Nicholas Snell and the Daddow family ( the sister was born Sarah Dadow) used the name Rundle (maiden name of grandmother).

I couldn't find any baptisms for William Rundle Snell, but I did find the baptism of William Snell Rundle! I believe the minister got rather confused and transposed the two!

[Nell]

I've had that with one of my ancestors, on a personal submission on the IGI. I think the personal submitter wanted the last name to be the chap's father but he was illegitimate so had his father's name as a middle name.

Either way Rundle Snell is a great name, sounds like a character out of a novel!

[ElizabethHerts]

Nell, don't you just love some of the Cornish names?

I've been making a collection of some of the Christian names:

Candatia
Pasquis
Ambrose (Ambrose Rundle is my ancestor!)
Dig(g)ory
Loveday
Duance
Gershom
Thomasin
Ealoner (Eleanor?)
Melchizzedech(k)
Sidwell (girl)
Malachi
Baltesshezzar (male)

Also the spelling:
Jenepher

And not unusual, but I have notice how popular it is:
Philippa (my daughter's name)