Altarnun, Cornwall, England Genealogy
Guide to Altarnun, Cornwall ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Altarnun, Cornwall, England | |
|---|---|
 Altarnun st nonna Cornwall | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Lesnewth |
| County | Cornwall |
| Poor Law Union | Launceston |
| Registration District | Launceston |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1610 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1611 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Trigg Major |
| Diocese | Exeter |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall |
| Location of Archive | |
| Cornwall Record Office | |
Parish History
ALTERNON (St. Nunn), a parish, in the union of Launceston, hundred of Lesnewth, E. division of Cornwall, 7¾ miles (W. S. W.) from Launceston. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[1]
Altarnun (Cornish: Alternonn),St Nonna is located on the north-eastern edge of Bodmin Moor at Ordnance Survey grid reference SX223811.
The parish of Altarnun includes the village of Fivelanes and the hamlets of Bolventor, Treween and Trewint.
The church of St Nonna is also known as the Cathedral of the Moor and is the largest Moor parishh church. It is a building largely of the 15th century in the Perpendicular style, with a tower 109 ft high. It is notable for the fine Norman font and the amount of old woodwork, including the screen, bench-ends and communion rails which date to 1684. The screen is one of the finest 15th century examples in Cornwall; it has three gates and the cornice of vines and tracery and vaulting are finely carved. The 79 bench-end carvings were executed by Robert Daye between 1510 and 1530 (Pevsner attributes them to 1524 or later) and portray a range of subjects including a Cornish piper and fiddler (Daye's name is given on one but the date is illegible). Also, one of the damaged pew ends was repaired to its former glory by the late local master joiner Douglas Edwards in the 1980s. The dedication is to Saint Non or Nonna, who was the mother of St David.
Neighbouring Parishes
St Breward, Cornwall St Cleer, Cornwall St Clether, Cornwall Trewen, Cornwall Lewannick, Cornwall Blisland, Cornwall St Neot, Cornwall
Resources
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 isFree BMD
Church records
Altarnun, Cornwall, England Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Altarnun, Cornwall, England Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1611-1673 | |||||
| COPC | 1611-1913 | 1679-1913 | 1611-1936 (gaps) | |||
| FMP | 1611-1875 | 1611-1837 | 1717-1837 | |||
| FREG | 1611-1841 | 1529-1919 | 1611-1902 | |||
| FS PRs | 1610-1837 | 1610-1906 | 1610-1902 | |||
| IGI | 1611-1875 | 1610-1874 | ||||
| TGEN | 1725-1841 | |||||
Records available through the Family History Library are as follows: Church of England parish registers: 1688-1992; Church of England Chapelry of Bolventor registers 1849-1979; Church of England transcripts of parish registers and Bishop's Transcripts 1610-1837; Parish chest materials, 1729-1862. Church records for Alternon Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1846-1996.
Church records indexes for Alternon parish are also available.
Original registers are deposited at the Cornwall Record Office, County Hall, Truro TRI 3AY. These deposited original registers cover the time period 1610-1980.
Images of parish registers are available online at FamilySearchunder Records. Images refer to Cornwall Record Office reference: P4.
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource is the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
Census records
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
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 Jurisdiction by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers
There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Valuable Websites are:
Websites
Altarnun in GENUKI
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 44-49. Date accessed: 06 March 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 'Coverage by Parish,' Cornwall Online Parish Clerks, accessed 2 December 2013.
- ↑ 'Cornwall Baptisms', Find My Past, accessed 22 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Cornwall Marriages', Find My Past, accessed 25 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Cornwall Burials', Find My Past, accessed 25 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Cornwall Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 18 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Cornwall and Devon Parish Registers, 1538-2010', FamilySearch, accessed 25 November 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Cornwall, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 21 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records,' TheGenealogist, accessed 22 May 2014.