Kilkhampton, Cornwall Genealogy

Parish History
General overview

Kilkhampton St James the Great is an Ancient parish in Cornwall and includes Stebb and Thurdon. Kilkhampton Church, with its magnificent Norman south doorway and lofty buttressed Perpendicular tower of eight bells, is dedicated to St James the Great and is at least 450 years old. But some historians claim parts of it to be around 1000 years old. It is one of many churches dedicated to this saint on a pilgrims' route, which leads ultimately to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. The church contains an impressive monument to the Cornish hero Sir Bevil Grenville. Other features of interest are the south porch (dated 1567), a fine series of benchends of the first half of the 16th century. (The benchends are from the same workshop as those of Launcells, Cornwall and Poughill Poughill, Cornwall.)

The tenor bell was found to be cracked in 2006: after repairs, it was re-hung and the full peal of eight bells were first heard again on Sunday 23 September 2007.

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 102

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/h_k/kilkhampton.php

The history, registers and much more have been contributed by the Online Parish clerk for Kilkhampton.

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.

Cornwall Online Census Project

Poor Law Unions
Stratton Poor Law Union

Probate records
Records of Wills, administrations, i nventories, 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.kilkhampton.net/ parish website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Greenway Thomas Greenaway Premier of Manitoba Canada was born in the village

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Yeo_%28shipbuilder%29 James Yeo political figure in Canada Prince Edward Island

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Richard_Grenville,_1st_Baronet Cornish Royalist leader in the English Civil war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevil_Grenville includes image of memorial within the church

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Granville,_1st_Earl_of_Bath and son http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Granville,_2nd_Earl_of_Bath Mp for Launceston, Cornwall