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The parish of St Andrew, (Cornish: Rysrudh Sen Androw), in Redruth was created in 1884 when the original parish of Redruth, based upon St Uny's church, was divided in two to serve a vastly increasing population.
The origin of the name Redruth is believed to be 'red ford', from the Cornish rys or rid meaning red, and rudh meaning ford. In the past the town of Redruth and its neighbour, Camborne, served the important areas of tin mining area in south-west Cornwall. There has been a long tradition of rivalry between the two towns. In the early days of mining Redruth thought it was a cut above Camborne, because it was the place where the better classes lived. Today Redruth is a small industrial and commercial centre that is by-passed by the A30 trunk road.
Most parish and church description(s) on these pages are from Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall by J Polsue (Truro, 1867 - 1873)
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- The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church.
Census information for this parish is included under Redruth Town
The 19th century parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW6941 and is dedicated to St Andrew. It was consecrated on St Andrew's Day in 1884. It is built of elvan stone and was erected in 1883; it consists of a chancel, nave, transept and aisles. It has a tower with a spire.
- LDS Church Records. For LDS Church batch numbers - see under Redruth Town.
- The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1884 - 1945, Marriages 1885 - 1965.
- Baptisms. Baptisms 1898 to 1912 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
The ecclesiastical parish is part of Redruth Town for civil purposes.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Redruth St Andrew to another place.
OPC Assistance. The On-line Parish Clerk (OPC) scheme operates a service to help family historians; the OPC page for this parish is available on-line, from where the OPC can be contacted by email.
- Map of the Camborne and Redruth Registration district in which the parish lies.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW698418 (Lat/Lon: 50.231281, -5.229148), Redruth St Andrew which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Redruth St Andrew parish was part of the Redruth Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.
Created from part of Redruth parish 1884; for population figures - see under Redruth Town.