Warleggan, Cornwall Genealogy

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

Parish History
WARLEGGON (St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 5¾ miles (E. N, E.) from Bodmin. The church can be found on the OS maps at grid number 157691, and a well-maintained cemetery is at the church. The Cornwall Family History Society has published a listing of the monumental inscriptions.

Warleggon/Warleggan, (Cornish: Gorlegan) St Bartholomew is an ancient parish in the county of Cornwall. It is a sparsely populated parish with the census enumerations from 1801-1911 listing between 116-301 persons, currently at about 200 inhabitants. There is a small cluster of homes near the church, but the more part of the inhabitants live at Mount Village, about 2 km to the southwest of the church. A war memorial of genealogical interest is adjacent to the former post office at Mount Cross.

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
 * Type the name of the parish in the search bar
 * Click on the location pin on the map
 * Choose Options from the pop up box
 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring 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 Free BMD. Warleggan was in the Bodmin Civil Registration District from the inception of civil registration in 1837 until 30 June 1936. Since 1 July 1936, Warleggan has been in the Liskeard Civil Registration District.

Church records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Cornwall ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * Cornish Parish Records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census records
Cornwall Online Census Project

Neighboring Parishes
When an event such as baptism, marriage, or burial is not found in the registers of the parish where it might be expected to be recorded, it may often be found in a neighboring parish, particularly a marriage when one of the parties was from a nearby parish. Beginning on the north and moving clockwise around the boundaries of the parish are the ecclesiastical parishes of Temple, St Neot, Braddoc (Broad Oak) and Cardinham.

Poor Law Unions
Bodmin 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. Warleggan is on the current Ordinance Survey Explorer Map 109 "Bodmin Moor." Reproductions of historical maps are also available. The Cassini Historical Map (1900) and Old Series (1813) split the parish between the "Newquay and Bodmin" (map 200) and "Plymouth and Launceston" (map 201) maps, which match the current OS Landranger maps.

Valuable websites are:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Warleggan in GENUKI