Treneglos, Cornwall Genealogy

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



Parish History
TRENEGLOS (St. Werburgh), a parish, in the union of Launceston, hundred of Lesnewth, E. division of Cornwall, 7½ miles NE by E from Camelford.

Treneglos (Cornish: Treneglos (from "tre-an-eglos", in English literally 'Churchtown') St Gregory is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall. Warbstow, Cornwall was a chapelry of Treneglos. The church is at Treneglos at OS Grid Ref SX207881.

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:

Images of parish registers are available online at FamilySearch Images refer to Cornwall Record Office reference: P 230

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource is the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks page for the parish https://www.opc-cornwall.org/Par_new/t_z/treneglos.php

Census records
Cornwall Online Census Project

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 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 websites are:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Add here any relevant sites that aren't mentioned above.