Warbstow, Cornwall, England Genealogy
Guide to Warbstow, Cornwall ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. [[Image:|thumb|right]]
| Warbstow, Cornwall, England | |
|---|---|
 St Werburgh's Church, Warbstow Cornwall | |
| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Lesnewth |
| County | Cornwall |
| Poor Law Union | Launceston |
| Registration District | Launceston |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1695; For more records see Treneglos | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1612 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Stratton |
| 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
WARBSTOW (St. Werburgh), a parish, in the union of Launceston, hundred of Lesnewth, E. division of Cornwall, 8½ miles NE from Camelford. There are places of worship for Bryanites and Wesleyans. [1]
The Norman church was substantially rebuilt in the 15th century.
Warbstow Bury is a large Iron Age fort with massive ramparts. It was once the venue for an annual gathering of Methodists from the circuits of Camelford, Holsworthy and Launceston who assembled here on Whit Tuesday for an open air service
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 is Free BMD.
Church records
Warbstow, Cornwall, England Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Warbstow, Cornwall, England Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1612-1629, 1695-1812 | |||||
| COPC | 1695-1911 | 1683-1913 | 1696-1910 | |||
| FMP | 1681-1805 | 1612-1837 | 1813-1836 | |||
| FREG | 1718-1758, 1797-1812 | 1695-1907 | 1718-1758, 1798-1812 | |||
| FS PRs | 1718-1758, 1797-1812 | 1718-1758, 1771-1907 | 1718-1758, 1797-1812 | |||
| IGI | 1681-1772 | 1681-1759 | ||||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
| TGEN | 1695-1908 | 1683-1837 | ||||
Images of parish registers are available online at FamilySearch Images refer to Cornwall Record Office reference: P 246
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource is the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks page for the parish.
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 Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers
There are many maps and gazetteers showing English places. Valuable websites are:
- England Jurisdictions 1851
- Vision of Britain
Websites
Warbstow in GENUKI
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 461-464. Date accessed: 23 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 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Cornwall, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 22 November 2013.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 'Parish Records,' TheGenealogist, accessed 22 May 2014.