Cornwall Archives and Libraries
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Archives
Kresen Kernow (‘Cornwall Centre’)
Little Vauxhall
Redruth TR15 1AS UK
E-mail: kresenkernow@cornwall.gov.uk
Telephone number: 01209 614430
- These archives used to be housed at Cornwall Record Office in Truro and the Cornish Studies Library in Redruth.
Cornish Archives Network (CAN)
E-mail: kresenkernow@cornwall.gov.uk
Website
CAN Members Map (Clickable for contact information.)
- CAN is a free thriving network of over 80 archive and heritage organizations across Cornwall. The group includes everyone from well-established community and professional archives to new small digital archives, archives within other institutions and local heritage and history groups.
Libraries
Cornwall Libraries and contact information
Institute of Cornish Studies
University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus)
Environment and Sustainability Institute
Treliever Road
Penryn, Cornwall
TR10 9FE England
Contact information
Website
University of Leicester Special Collections Online
E-mail: specialcollections@leicester.ac.uk
Website
Search Engine
- University of Leicester Special Collections Online provides free access to digital resources from the David Wilson Library, including "My Leicestershire History", "Manufacturing Pasts", "Historical Directories" and other material from its collections of rare books, images and archives.
Museums
Royal Cornwall Museum
River Street
Truro, Cornwall TR1 2SJ UK
Telephone: 01872 272 205
Email: enquiries@royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
Website
- Extensive collections range from Stone Age Cornwall to Contemporary Art, telling stories across cultures and also across the last ten thousand years.
Civil Records Offices
The General Register Office holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their website (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county/district registry offices.
Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the historic and current registration districts and their parishes, see UKBMD: Registration Districts in Cornwall.
Cornwall Registration Service
Registration Offices Contact Information
Telephone: 0300 1234 181
E-mail: registration@cornwall.gov.uk
Family History
The Isles of Scilly has its own council government and it not listed in the Contact Information of the Cornwall Council.
Isles of Scilly Register Office
Council of the Isles of Scilly
Town Hall
St Mary’s
Isles of Scilly
TR21 0LW England
Telephone: 0300 1234 105
E-mail: enquiries@scilly.gov.uk
Website
Family History
The Cornwall Family History Society also has a wide range of indexes, census records and other material as well as a comprehensive store of local and background information.
Cornwall Family History Society
18 Lemon Street
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 2LS, UK
E-mail: secretary@cornwallfhs.com
Telephone: 01872 264044
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