Halsetown, Cornwall Genealogy

Guide to Halsetown, Cornwall ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HALESTOWN, or HALSETOWN, a village and a chapelry in St. Ives parish, Cornwall. The village is suburban to St. Ives.

Halsetown St John is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cornwall, created in 1846 from St Ives, Cornwall Ecclesiastical Parish. Originally it was St John in the Fields but is now surrounded by housing on the outskirts of St Ives.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church Records
Halsetown parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Images of parish registers are available online at FamilySearch Images refer to Cornwall County Record Office reference P 82.

There is an error in the parish name in the way points to images. This is a known issue and awaits future correction by engineers.

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
The Halsetown section of the OPC website contains many records.

Census Records
Cornwall Online Census Project

Poor Law Unions
Penzance Poor Law Union

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cornwall Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Halsetown in GENUKI