Calstock, Cornwall Genealogy

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

Parish History
CALSTOCK (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Liskeard, Middle division of the hundred of East, E division of Cornwall, 5¼ miles E from Callington.

Neighboring Parishes
England Jurisdictions 1851 may be used to locate nearby parishes by clicking the "Options" tab and selecting "List contiguous parishes."


 * Bere Ferrers with Bere Alston, Devon
 * Callington, Cornwall
 * Lamerton, Devon
 * St Dominic, Cornwall
 * Stoke Climsland, Cornwall
 * Tavistock, Devon

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. Calstock was initially in the Liskeard (Cornwall) Registration District. It was transferred to the Tavistock Registration District of Devon on the 12th October 1860. Finally, it moved to the St Germans Registration District of Cornwall on 1st April 1936.

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

Records for Calstock cover 1656-1996, these registers are kept at the County Record Office, County Hall, Truro TR1 3AY.

The Family History Library has microfilmed parish registers from 1658-1996 and bishop’s transcripts from 1684-1772. Microfilm numbers can be found at FamilySearch.

Images of parish registers are available online at FamilySearch under Records. Parish registers refer to Cornwall Record Office reference: P 26.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
The Calstock section of the OPC website contains many records. Calstock also has its own OPC website, containing mostly historical photos and descriptions.

Poor Law Unions
Liskeard 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 the article to the Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Valuable web sites are:


 * 1851 Jurisdiction Maps
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Calstock in GENUKI