St Stephen by Launceston, Cornwall Genealogy

Parish History
St Stephen-by-Launceston is an Ancient parish historically in the Diocese of Exeter and Trigg Major deanery until the formation of the Diocese of Truro

It is located in the Anglican Diocese of Truro and is attached to the Deanery of Trigg Major in the Archdeaconry of Bodmin. The Parish of St Stephen-by-Launceston is now part of the United Parish of Launceston, the other parts being Launceston St Mary Magdalene, Cornwall and  St Thomas by Launceston, Cornwall. The parish contains the villages of Langore, Truscott, Yeolmbridge, Newport, Dutson and St Stephens.

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
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 213

The images loaded at present appear under the waypoint St Stephen (near Launceston) The waypoint will in future be amended to St Stephen-by-Launceston by engineers.

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/l_m/launceston_stephen.php

The history registers and much more have been contributed by the Online Parish clerk for Launceston Phillipa Stout.

Census records
Overview, Include any unique information such as, the census for X year was destroyed, Collection in FHL and link to catalog, Online sites.

Cornwall Online Census Project for census information

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Launceston 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.