Hayle St Elwyn, Cornwall Genealogy

Guide to Hayle St Elwyn, Cornwall family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Parish History
Hayle (Cornish: Heyl) church of St Elwyn was built in 1886-88 to the design of J. D. Sedding. According to Pevsner it is "loud outside ... and dull inside" [Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., rev. by Enid Radcliffe. Penguin; p. 80]

Hayle parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack, Cornwall parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of  St Erth, Cornwall in 1937. The modern parish shares boundaries with St Ives, Cornwall to the west, St Erth to the south,  Gwinear and  Gwithian in the east

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

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 54

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/hayle.php John Smith also has a website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~phillack/ for Phillack, Cornwall and Hayle

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
Redruth 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
Add here any relevant sites that aren't mentioned above.