Penzance St John The Baptist, Cornwall Genealogy

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Parish History
Penzance St John the Baptist was created in 1882 from Penzance St Mary.

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

Images of parish registers are available online in historic records (formerly Record Search) Images refer to Cornwall Record Office reference: P 181

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource is the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks page for the parish.

Websites
Penzance St John the Baptist in GENUKI