Lelant, Cornwall Genealogy

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

Parish History
LELANT, UNY (St. Ewyn), a parish, in the union of Penzance, W. division of the hundred of Penwith and of the county of Cornwall, 3 miles SE from St. Ives. There are two places of worship for Wesleyans.

Lelant St Uny is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall. TowednackTowednack, Cornwall was a chapelry of Lelant. Other places in the parish include: Carbis Bay, Carbis Water, and Chy-ang-wheal.

The name is derived from the Cornish lann and Anta, meaning Church-site of Anta,. The earliest attested spelling is Lananta in about 1170.

Nothing is known about Anta and Lelant parish church is dedicated to St Uny.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Cornwall Record Office.

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource is the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks page for the parish. The history, registers and much more have been contributed by the Online Parish clerk for Lelant (Uny-Lelant) Chris Uphill. Also http://www.lelant.info/ which contains transcripts, local reminiscences and a great deal more.

Census records

 * Name index for the Lelant Village censuses 1841-1901 transcribed by Maxwell Adams
 * Lelant Carbis 1911 Census Transcription by Christine Uphill
 * Cornwall Online Census Project

Directories
Transcribed by Maxwell Adams:
 * Lelant entries from directories for 1783-1939

Poor Law Unions
Penzance 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 web sites are:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Land Records
Trascribed by Maxwell Adams:


 * Lelant leaseholders 1708-1853
 * Lelant ratepayers 1722
 * Lelant ratepayers 1750
 * Lelant Village Leaseholders/Tenants in 1838

Websites
Lelant in GENUKI