Lanreath, Cornwall Genealogy

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

Lanreath, Cornwall
Lanreath Church Cornwall
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	West
County	Cornwall
Poor Law Union	Liskeard
Registration District	Liskeard
Records begin
Parish registers: 1555
Bishop's Transcripts: 1597
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	West
Diocese	Exeter
Province	Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
Location of Archive
Cornwall Record Office
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Parish History[edit | edit source]

LANREATH (St. Marnarch), a parish, in the union of Liskeard, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 6 miles (W. N. W.) from West Looe. There are places of worship for Calvinists and Wesleyans.^[1]

Lanreath St Marnarch

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Lanreath parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Cornwall Record Office.

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks[edit | edit source]

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

Census records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

Probate records[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Valuable web sites are:

• 1851 Jurisdiction Maps
• Vision of Britain

Websites[edit | edit source]

Lanreath in GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]