Penzance St Paul, Cornwall Genealogy

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

Parish History
Parish church in the town and chapelry of Penzance. Created 1867 from Penzance St Mary.

For more information see: Penzance.

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:

Images of parish registers are available online in historic records (formerly Record Search) Images refer to Cornwall Record Office reference: P 180

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource is the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks page for the parish.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

Websites
Penzance St Paul in Genuki