St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England Genealogy
Guide to St Michael's Mount, Cornwall ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| St Michael's Mount | |
| Type | Extra-parochial |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| County | Cornwall |
| Hundred | Penwith |
| Poor Law Union | Penzance |
| Registration District | Penzance |
| Records Begin | |
| Parish registers | For records see St Hilary |
| Bishop's Transcripts | For records see St Hilary |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Not Applicable |
| Diocese | Not Applicable |
| Probate Court | Search the courts of the surrounding parishes |
| Archive | |
| Cornwall Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
MICHAEL'S, ST., MOUNT, an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of Penwith, W. division of Cornwall, ¼ of a mile S from Marazion.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
- Type the name of the parish in the search bar
- Click on the location pin on the map
- Choose Options from the pop up box
- Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
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]
St Michael's Mount is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Marazion.
- 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.
- England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages at Findmypast — index & images ($); coverage may vary
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.
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 websites are:
- 1851 Jurisdiction Maps
- Vision of Britain
Websites[edit | edit source]
St Michael's Mount in GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 298-301. Date accessed: 25 March 2013.