St Winnow, Cornwall Genealogy

England Cornwall  Cornwall Parishes



= Parish History =

WINNOW, ST., a parish, in the union of Bodmin, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 2½ miles (S. E.) from Lostwithiel. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

= Neighboring Parishes =

Adjacent parishes beginning on the north going clockwise are Cardinham, Cornwall, Broadoak (Braddoc) Broadoak, Cornwall, England,  Boconnoc, Cornwall, England,  St Veep, Cornwall,  (Golant) St Sampson, Cornwall,  Lanlivery, Cornwall,  Lostwithiel, Cornwall, and  Lanhydrock, Cornwall. The hamlet of Lerryn straddles the River Lerryn with part of the homes in St Winnow parish and the other part in St Veep parish. The parishes of St Sampson and Lanlivery are separated from St Winnow by the River Fowey, and there has been less interaction than is found with the other neighbouring parishes. Lostwithiel, Lanhydrock, and Cardinham are connected by bridges over the Fowey, which has allowed for more association and movement than with the former parishes over the river. Lostwithiel has always been the nearest center of commerce for St Winnow, especially Bridgend, which is in St Winnow parish but in some respects is part of the town of Lostwithiel.

= Resources =

Cemeteries
There are cemeteries at both the St Winnow and the St Nectan's Churches. Both are still in use and maintained to a modest degree.

Parish Records
Some records have been filmed by the GSU and are in the LDS Family History Library, but the coverage is far from complete. The Cornwall Record Office collection is much more nearly complete, and is open to the public by appointment. The remainder of the records in the CRO were filmed by Family Search in 2011, but have not yet been made available to search. A few images of burial records from 1684-1782 are online in the Family Search Historical Record collection (unindexed), but there is a possibility that additional records may appear there in the future and that they would ultimately be indexed and searchable.

The Cornwall Family History Society has indexes available for marriages 1622-1837 and burials 1813-1837. These can be purchased in booklet, CD, or PDF download form. The Cornish Forefathers' Society has published transcriptions of baptisms (christenings) from 1708-1850 on CD. St Winnow has an online parish clerk who can be contacted through their website at http://www.cornwall-opc.org/. This is a volunteer position, and he has access to some parish records, as well as some transcriptions of non-conformist records. He will answer inquiries as time and availability of records permits. Some of the parish records have also been put into the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks database (access through the same interent link) and can be viewed directly. The Cornwall Online Parish Clerks' database does not publish records less than 100 years old to be viewed online, but the OPC does have more recent records (as late as 1971 for baptisms), and information for more recent events can be obtained by contacting him directly.

Non-conformist records up to 1900 have also been published on CD and are available from commercial sources, such as Cornwall Legacy. Most non-conformists were Methodist or Bible Christian. The jurisdictional boundaries for these groups do not coincide with those of the Anglican parish. Records will usually be found in the circuits of St Austell, Bodmin, and Liskeard.

Census Records
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The most accurate census transcriptions (because they were done by Cornish people familiar with the names and places) are found at the Cornwall Online Census Project at Cornwall Online Census Project. This is a free site.

The UK Census Online (FreeCEN), while not uniquely Cornish, is also valuable and will often yield positive results when other sites providing the census fail to find the person sought, because the search function allows a phonetic search of surnames.

Poor Law Unions
Bodmin Poor Law Union

Maps
England Jurisdictions 1851