Forrabury

The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 698 entries.

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1901) is held in the Cornwall Record Office. The Cornwall Family History Society offers a census search service for its members.
Specific census information for this parish is available as follows:

• 1841. The 1841 Census of Forrabury (HO107/140), Enumeration District 10, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851. The 1851 Census of Forrabury (HO107/1898), Enumeration District 5, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Forrabury (RG9/1515), Enumeration District 1, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871.
  • The 1871 Census of Forrabury (RG10/2218), Enumeration District 1, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • The 1871 Census of Forrabury is also available from the Cornwall Family History Society.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Forrabury (RG11/2272), Enumeration District 1, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Forrabury (RG12/1799), Enumeration District 5, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX0990. It comprises a chancel, nave, north aisle, south transept, and vestry. The aisle is separated from the nave by an arcade of four segmental arches of Bath stone, supported on cylindrical monolith pillars of the same material. The first stage of the tower is added to the nave through a well-proprtioned loft arch. The tower is of three stages, and is finished with battlements and stump pinnacles. In consequence os somewhat exposed position of the church, the entrance to both church and tower is confined to a south porch.
  The church is located in the town of Boscastle and is supposedly dedicated to St Symphorian, who is a little known Saint in England, but many churches are dedicated to him in France. Perhaps he was familiar to the Bottreaux family who came over to England with William the Conqueror. He was a native of Autun, in Burgundy and was sentenced to death and beheaded in A.D 282 when he was still a young man for protesting against the worship of the goddess Cybele. He is commemorated on the 22nd of August.
  The mother church of Boscastle has been regarded as that inland at Minster; it was built on the isolated site of a former Priory. Forrabury church, is on a hill above Boscastle, and is actually nearer to the village. There are remains of the Norman Church which can be seen in the south wall of the nave and in the south transept, where a plain round arch is in evidence. The font is also of this age and has a strange change of design from one side to the other. In 1867, the church was almost completely re-built. (Before this the church was described as 'very ancient', and interesting structure being a dimly-lit cruciform Norman Church with a tower dating to 1760). The tower was renovated in 2004.
  The parish is now part of the Boscastle-with-Davidstow ecclesiastical parish.
• Non-Conformist. There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Boscastle.

• LDS Church Records>
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Forrabury are: C026441, E026441, M026441. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1692 -1812.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1710 - 1987, Burials 1710 - 1930, Marriages 1710 - 1987, Boyd's Marriage Index 1611 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1790 - 1812, BTs 1611 - 1673.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1710 to 1903 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1710 to 1842 for this parish and these are available for purchase on Parish Chest
• Banns. Banns 1823 to 1900 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Marriages.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Marriages 1611 to 1837, which is available in Book, CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Marriages 1710 to 1812, 1814 to 1900 (parish transcripts), and Phillimore's marriages 1676 to 1812, for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD marriages 1710 to 1812 for this parish and these are available for purchase on Parish Chest
• Burials.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Burials 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book format.
  • Burials 1710 to 1903, and Bishop's Transcripts (BTs) of burials 1692 to 1804 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

Although originally in the Camelford Registration District, the parish of Forrabury is now in the Bodmin Registration District; there were sub-districts at Boscastle and Camelford. Parishes within the Camelford district were: Advent, Davidstow, Forrabury, Lanteglos, Lesnewth, Michaelstow, Minster, Otterham, St. Breward, St. Clether, St. Juliot, St. Teath, Tintagel, Trevalga.

The Superintendant Registrar of Bodmin can be contacted at: Lyndhurst, 66 Nicholas Street, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 2AG. Tel: 01208 73677.

• The The Parochial and Family History of the Parishes of Forrabury and Minister is available on-line, courtesy of the Old Cornwall Society. It was published by Sir John Mclean in 1873.

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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 Camelford Registration District in which the parish originally lay.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SX097907 (Lat/Lon: 50.685018, -4.695507), Forrabury 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.

• Forrabury parish was part of the Camelford Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.
• Overseers' Accounts (1719 to 1764, and 1824 to 1874) are available in the Cornwall Record Office.

Minster parish became united with Forrabury in 1779 and Minster's population are therefore included.

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)

The parish comprises 539 acres of land.