Tuckingmill, Cornwall Genealogy

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

Parish History
TUCKINGMILL, a chapelry in Camborne and Illogan parishes, Cornwall; 1 mile NNE of Camborne r. station. It was constituted in 1844.

Tuckingmill All Saints is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cornwall, created in 1844 from Camborne, CornwallAncient Parish and Illogan, Cornwall Ancient Parish.

Tucking Mill was the Cornish term for a fulling mill which was where homespun cloth was dipped, cleansed and dressed, there is a mention of a fulling mill in this region as early as 1250. During the nineteenth century Tuckingmill was at the heart of Cornish industry.

Situated within the parish was the Bickford Fuse Factory, where the world’s first Safety Fuse was invented and manufacture.

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 240

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/t_z/tuckingmill.php

The history, registers and much more have been contributed by the Online Parish clerk for Tuckingmill. Sally Cann also maintains her Camborne, Cornwall website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~camborneopc/ which includes material for Tuckingmill Sally is the Online Parish Clerk for Camborne.

Census records
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.

http://www.cornish-mining.org.uk/sites/bickfords.htm for history of Bickford's Safety Fuse works