Advent, Cornwall Genealogy

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

Parish History
ADVENT, or St. Adven, a parish, in the union of Camelford, hundred of Lesnewth, E. division of Cornwall, 1¾ mile S from Camelford.

Advent (Cornish: Sen Adhwynn) St Adwenna was a chapelry of Lanteglos-by-Camelford, Cornwall Ancient Parish in Cornwall.

Advent is a sparsely populated rural parish. Much of the area is moorland and includes the hamlets of Tresinney and Treclago and there is no village called Advent. The parish also encompasses several small farmstead hamlets, numerous scattered farms and Pencarrow House.

The parish church is dedicated to St Adwenna, one of the daughters of Brychan of Brycheiniog. It stands in the fields on farmland 400 metres north-east of the hamlet of Tresinney at OS Grid Ref SX104816.[1] The church is in the Anglican Diocese of Truro and is notable for its high, pinnacled tower which houses a ring of four bells: the greater part of the building dates from the 15th century. The south aisle was added at that time; the north transept was Early English but was rebuilt in 1870, at which time the south transept was demolished. The font is Norman, plain and circular.

The ecclesiastical parish is the responsibility of the Rector of Lanteglos-by-Camelford and Advent has been associated with Lanteglos since medieval times.

Neighbouring Parishes
Historical Maps may be used to locate nearby parishes by doing a search for the target parish, then clicking the "Options" tab and selecting "List contiguous parishes."

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 FreeBMD.

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

Records deposited cover 1709-1979, these registers are kept at the County Record Office, County Hall, Truro TR1 3AY.

The Family History Library has marriages 1676-1801; Bishop's Transcripts 1676-1805; Parish registers 1813-1987.

Church records indexes: Parish register printouts: Christenings, 1676-1772.

Film numbers for Advent can be found at FamilySearch.

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource is the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks website for online data content. Most of this county's parishes are listed with links to online transcriptions and/or indexes.

Census records
Cornwall Online Census Project

Poor Law Unions
Camelford 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
There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Valuable sites are:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Advent in GENUKI

Genealogy and History Websites
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