Flushing, Cornwall, England Genealogy

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

Flushing
Type Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Cornwall
Hundred Kerrier
Poor Law Union Falmouth
Registration District Falmouth
Records Begin
Parish registers None
Bishop's Transcripts None
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Kerrier
Diocese Exeter
Province Canterbury
Probate Court Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
Archive
Cornwall Record Office


Parish History[edit | edit source]

FLUSHING, a small sea-port, in the parish of Mylor, union of Falmouth, E. division of the hundred of Kerrier, W. division of Cornwall, ¼ of a mile N from Falmouth. The Baptists Bryanites, Wesleyans, and Unitarians have places of worship.[1]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]

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Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Flushing is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Falmouth.

  • Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
  • The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]

Falmouth Poor Law Union

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]

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Websites[edit | edit source]

Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) Mylor and Flushing

Flushing in GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 244-248 Date accessed: 13 March 2013.