Botus Fleming, Cornwall Genealogy

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

Parish History
BOTUS-FLEMING, a parish, in the union of St. Germans, S. division of the hundred of East, E. division of Cornwall, 3 miles (N. W.) from Saltash. Botus Fleming St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.

The Parish Church is dedicated to St Mary and has a western tower and a fine arcade between the nave and the north aisle. In a field near the church is an obelisk in memory of William Martyn built in 1762. Moditonham is the site of the medieval castle of the Moditons of which nothing remains; there is now a large Georgian house there.

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


 * Landrake, Cornwall
 * Landulph, Cornwall
 * Pillaton, Cornwall
 * St Stephens by Saltash, 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 FreeBMD.

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

Records deposited cover 1548-1992, these registers are kept at the County Record Office, County Hall, Truro TR1 3AY.

The Family History Library has microfilmed parish registers from 1548-1992 and bishop’s transcripts from 1675-1773.

Images of parish registers are available online at FamilySearch under Records. Images refer to Cornwall Record Office reference: P15.

Burials from 1813 do not appear but are incorrectly way pointed in the Bolventor way points. This issue has been referred to engineers for future correction.

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource is theCornwall Online Parish Clerks page for the parish.

Census records
Cornwall Online Census Project

Poor Law Unions
St Germans 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. Valuable web sites are:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Botus in GENUKI