Tywardreath, Cornwall Genealogy

Parish History
General overview

The parish of Tywardreath &lt;Ti War Dreth&gt; which means "House or Manor on the Strand, or Beach" in Cornish, was identified in the Domesday Book (as Tiwardrai), but Bronze Age finds have been discovered in the parish.

Since the mid-1200's, it has had a dual nature. It was the seat of the Benedictine Priory, founded by the Cardinham family - a large, powerful, and rich monastery that controlled lands and estates throughout Cornwall until the rule of Henry VIII.

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 242

Census records
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Cornwall Online Census Project

Poor Law Unions
St Austell Poor Law Union

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, 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
St. Austell Genealogy and History    Includes Free transcriptions of manorial records, wills, all BMDs for C. of E. and non-conformist  churches 1565 to 1900 in spreadsheet form, which helps researchers see alternatively spelled surnames more easily. There are also photographic "trips" through the parish, War Memorial transcriptions, indexes of directories from 1798 to 1873, Voters Lists 1850-1864, Protestation Returns, Poll tax and Hearth tax returns, etc. Data is added regularly. Cornwall Online Parish Clerks   Cornwall Online Parish Clerks database (http://cornwall-opc-database.org    Includes for Free all BMD data found on the site above, with some differences,   Poll and Hearth tax returns, and Voter Lists.  Covers all of Cornwall, not one   parish.  FreeBMD       An index of all names from Registrar's data, starting in 1837 to this date,    showing the location of the information so that researchers may order copies    of certificates.  FreeCens       Transcriptions of the 1841 through 1891 censuses, checked by 3 persons;    searchable database.  All transcriptions include original misspelling, age     differences, etc. (they were transcribed as written, when the writing    could be deciphered.)  Please try alternative spellings.  West Briton &amp; Cornwall Advertiser Newspaper       Searchable transcriptions of the newspaper, 1836 to 1887, which includes all      Court cases, news of the day,BMDs published in the paper, various advertisements, etc.