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== Parish History == | |||
= | GWITHIAN (St. Gothian), a '''parish''', in the union of Redruth, E. division of the hundred of Penwith, W. division of Cornwall, 7½ miles (W.) from Redruth. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.<ref>Lewis Samuel A., [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50994#s24 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''] (1848), pp. 360-362. Date accessed: 13 March 2013.</ref> | ||
Gwitihian St Gwithian was a chapelry of [[Phillack, Cornwall]] Ancient Parish in Cornwall.<br> | Gwitihian St Gwithian was a chapelry of [[Phillack, Cornwall]] Ancient Parish in Cornwall.<br> | ||
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
GWITHIAN (St. Gothian), a parish, in the union of Redruth, E. division of the hundred of Penwith, W. division of Cornwall, 7½ miles (W.) from Redruth. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[1]
Gwitihian St Gwithian was a chapelry of Phillack, Cornwall Ancient Parish in Cornwall.
The church and relics of St Gwithian or Gocianus, built in 490, were uncovered from the beach and dunes during the early part of the last century, but were then allowed to be reclaimed by the shifting sands. He is the patron saint of good fortune on the sea. The current church was established further inland in the 15th century but only a few fragments of this building remain incorporated in the lychgate of Edmund Sedding's church of 1866 (the tower however is the original one of the 15th cent.)
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 Free BMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Overview, Include information for parish registers and Bishop's Transcripts, Contact information for the office holdling the original records, Links to the Family History Library Catalog showing film numbers in their collection.
Images of parish registers are available online in historic records (formerly Record Search) Images refer to Cornwall County Record Office reference: P 81
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks[edit | edit source]
An extremely useful resource is the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks page for the parish http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Par_new/e_g/gwithian.php Also available is the website http://webs.lanset.com/azazella/gwithian_page.html with transcriptions.
Census records[edit | edit source]
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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 FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.
Cornwall Online Census Project
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to [county] 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:
- England Jurisdictions 1851
- Vision of Brtain
Web sites[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 360-362. Date accessed: 13 March 2013.