Carnmenellis, Cornwall Genealogy

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

Parish History
CARNMENELLIS, an ecclesiastical district, in the parish of Wendron, union of Helston, W division of the hundred of Kerrier and of the county of Cornwall. There are several places of worship for dissenters.

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

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

Images of parish registers are available online at FamilySearch Images refer to Cornwall Record Office reference: P29

The images for Baptisms 1846-1858 have been incorrectly loaded under waypoint for Cardinham reference P/29/1/11 and are awaiting correction by engineers.

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
The Carnmenellis section of the OPC website contains many records.

Poor Law Unions
Helston 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Carnmenellis in GENUKI