Advent, Cornwall Genealogy

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Parish History
Advent (Cornish: Sen Adhwynn) St Adwenna was a chapelry of  Lanteglos-by-Camelford, Cornwall Ancient Parish in Cornwall.

Advent is a sparsely populated rural parish. Much of the area is moorland and includes the hamlets of Tresinney  and Treclago and there is no village called Advent. The parish also encompasses several small farmstead hamlets, numerous scattered farms and Pencarrow House.

The parish church is dedicated to St Adwenna, one of the daughters of Brychan of Brycheiniog[. It stands in the fields on farmland 400 metres north-east of the hamlet of Tresinney at OS Grid Ref SX104816.[1] The church is in the Anglican Diocese of Truro and is notable for its high, pinnacled tower which houses a ring of four bells: the greater part of the building dates from the 15th century. The south aisle was added at that time; the north transept was Early English but was rebuilt in 1870, at which time the south transept was demolished, The font is Norman, plain and circular.

The ecclesiastical parish is the responsibility of the Rector of Lanteglos-by-Camelford and Advent has been associated with Lanteglos since medieval times.

Neighbouring Parishes
England Jurisdictions 1851 may be used to locate nearby parishes by clicking the "Options" tab and selecting "List contiguous parishes"

Davidstow, Cornwall Lanteglos-by-Camelford, Cornwall Michaelstow, Cornwall St Breward, Cornwall

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


 * Camelford

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: P1

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/a_d/advent.php

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

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

Cornwall Online Census Project

Poor Law Unions
Camelford 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 sites are:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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