Warleggan, Cornwall Genealogy

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

Parish History
WARLEGGON (St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 5¾ miles (E. N, E.) from Bodmin. The church can be found on the OS maps at grid number 157691, and a well-maintained cemetery is at the church. The Cornwall Family History Society has published a listing of the monumental inscriptions.

Warleggon/Warleggan, (Cornish: Gorlegan) St Bartholomew is an ancient parish in the county of Cornwall. It is a sparsely populated parish with the census enumerations from 1801-1911 listing between 116-301 persons, currently at about 200 inhabitants. There is a small cluster of homes near the church, but the more part of the inhabitants live at Mount Village, about 2 km to the southwest of the church. A war memorial of genealogical interest is adjacent to the former post office at Mount Cross.

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. Warleggan was in the Bodmin Civil Registration District from the inception of civil registration in 1837 until 30 June 1936. Since 1 July 1936, Warleggan has been in the Liskeard Civil Registration District.

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

Parish registers are held in the collection at the Cornwall Records Office in Truro and can be viewed there by appointment. Many have been filmed by the GSU and the FamilySearch Catalog shows the film numbers in their collection.

Most of the parish registers have also been transcribed and that information can be viewed on the database of the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. Due to privacy concerns, the COPC does not publish the transcriptions of the more recent events (less that 100 years for most events) on the website, but the OPC for Warleggan can be contacted directly through their website, and he will provide that information without cost as time permits. The Cornwall Family History Society has some transcripts of these records that can be purchased in PDF, CD, or booklet form.

Images of parish registers are available online at FamilySearch Images refer to Cornwall Record Office reference: P 247.

A significant part of the inhabitants are and have been non-conformist, primarily Wesleyan Methodist and Bible Christian. Jurisdictions do not coincide with those of the Chruch of England, and records will be found primarily in the circuits of Bodmin and Liskeard. A Methodist chapel is in Warleggan Parish, but many religious events took place in the chapels at Cardinham and St Neot.

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource is the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks page for the parish. It is maintained by volunteers and has a database that now has about 3 million names. It can be viewed by anyone without cost

Census records
Cornwall Online Census Project

Neighboring Parishes
When an event such as baptism, marriage, or burial is not found in the registers of the parish where it might be expected to be recorded, it may often be found in a neighboring parish, particularly a marriage when one of the parties was from a nearby parish. Beginning on the north and moving clockwise around the boundaries of the parish are the ecclesiastical parishes of Temple, St Neot, Braddoc (Broad Oak) and Cardinham.

Poor Law Unions
Bodmin 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
There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Warleggan is on the current Ordinance Survey Explorer Map 109 "Bodmin Moor." Reproductions of historical maps are also available. The Cassini Historical Map (1900) and Old Series (1813) split the parish between the "Newquay and Bodmin" (map 200) and "Plymouth and Launceston" (map 201) maps, which match the current OS Landranger maps.

Valuable websites are:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Warleggan in GENUKI