Tuckingmill, Cornwall Genealogy

Parish History
Tuckingmill All Saints is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cornwall, created in 1844 from Camborne, CornwallAncient Parish and Illogan, Cornwall Ancient Parish.

Tucking Mill was the Cornish term for a fulling mill which was where homespun cloth was dipped, cleansed and dressed, there is a mention of a fulling mill in this region as early as 1250. During the nineteenth century Tuckingmill was at the heart of Cornish industry.

Situated within the parish was the Bickford Fuse Factory, where the world’s first Safety Fuse was invented and manufacture.

A centre of the mining industry the parish contained, amongst many others, the greatest of all Cornish mines - Dolcoath Mine. Also in the parish is South Crofty Mine which was at one time the deepest in the world as well as being the last tin mine in Europe, only closing in 1998. The area consists of terraced miners cottages and rather barren industrialisation. With the demise of this economic activity many thousands of jobs were lost and Tuckingmill became a bleak post industrialisation urban area. However, in recent years regeneration has picked up and improvements are expected over the next few years.

The parish church was built in 1845 from Red Devonian Sandstone with granite pillars and is chequered with corner stone work and is dedicated to “All Saints”. Built in a mock Norman Style and it has what is probably the largest arch in Cornwall (with the exception of the Cathedral in Truro), this is a spacious but rather plain building. The font bowl may be 12th century.

Civil Registration
Births, 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 Free BMD.

Church records
Overview, Include information for parish registers and Bishop's Transcripts, Contact information for the office holding the original records, Links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Images of parish registers are available online in historic records (formerly Record Search) Images refer to Cornwall County Record Office reference: P 240

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource is the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks page for the parish http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Par_new/t_z/tuckingmill.php

The history, registers and much more have been contributed by the Online Parish clerk for Tuckingmill. Sally Cann also maintains her Camborne, Cornwall website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~camborneopc/ which includes material for Tuckingmill Sally is the Online Parish Clerk for Camborne.

Census records
Overview, Include any unique information such as, the census for X year was destroyed, Collection in FHL and link to catalog, Online sites.

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Cornwall Online Census Project

Poor Law Unions
Redruth Poor Law Union

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to [county] 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
There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Valuable web sites are:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Add here any relevant sites that aren't mentioned above.

http://www.cornish-mining.org.uk/sites/bickfords.htm for history of Bickford's Safety Fuse works