Gulval

The Cornwall Family History Society have not yet published any Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church.

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1901) is held in the Cornwall Records 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 Gulval (HO107/142), Enumeration Districts 24 to 27, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of Gulval (HO107/1918), Enumeration Districts 2a, 2b and 2c, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have compiled separate surname indexes of the 1851 Census for each Cornish registration district; Gulval is listed in Volume 27. The booklets are available in Cornwall at the Cornwall Centre, (formerly known as the Cornish Studies Library), and is also available in the Cornwall Family History Society Library.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Gulval (RG9/1595), Enumeration Districts 25 to 27, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871 The 1871 Census of Gulval (RG10/2342), Enumeration District 25 to 27, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Gulval (RG11/2347), Enumeration Districts 27 to 29, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Gulval (RG12/1859), Enumeration Districts 27 to 29, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW4831 and was dedicated to St Wolvela (or St Gudwal), a British saint who flourised here in the 6th century.
  There was an early christian church here which was rebuilt in the early 14th century. On July 10th 1336 the present church was consecrated.
  The church is divided into a chancel, nave, south aisle and north transept. The transept is separated from the nave by two arches similar to that of the arcade. The church has a south porch and a priest's door. The tower is of three stages and is finished with battlements and pinnacles.
  A further description and history of Gulval Church, extracted from Blight's Churches of West Cornwall - 1864, is also available.
  Gulval is now part of the United Benefice of Gulval-Madron.
• Non-Conformist. There were three chapels for the Wesleyans situated at Cross, Gear and Trezelah, and two for the Bible Christians at Carfury and New Mill.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Gulval are: E002771, M002771/3, P002771/2. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1598 - 1895.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1599 - 1886, Burials 1599 - 1925, Marriages 1598 - 1882, Boyd's Marriage Index 1598 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1800 - 1812.
• General.
  • Information about Gulval's baptism registers, marriage registers and burial registers is available.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1599 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1713 to 1840 for this parish and these are available for purchase on Parish Chest.
• Marriages.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Marriages 1598 to 1837, which is available in Book, CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Phillimore's marriages 1686 to 1741 and parish transcripts of marriages 1598 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • Details of Gulval Marriages 1883-1902 are on-line.
• Burials.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Burials 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book or CD formats.
  • Burials 1601 to 1913 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

The parish of Gulval has been in the Penzance Registration District continuously from 1st July 1837. There were originally sub-districts at Marazion, Penzance, St Buryan, St Just, St Ives and Uny-Lelant but these have now been abolished. Parishes within the district are: Gulval, Ludgvan, Madron, Marazion, Morvah, Penzance, Perranuthnoe, St. Buryan, St. Erth, St. Hilary, St. Ives, St. Just in Penwith, St. Levan, St. Michael's Mount, St. Paul, Sancreed, Sennen, Towednack, Uny-Lelant, Wolfe Rock Lighthouse, and Zennor. The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: Alphington House, Alverton Place, Penzance, TR18 4JJ. Tel: 01736 330093.

• An extract of TONKIN's NATURAL HISTORY OF CORNWALL (circa 1700) describes Gulval at that time. Hals' History of Cornwall - 1750 also gives much further historical information.
• Details from Lake's Parochial History - 1868 (part 1) concerning Gulval is also on-line.
• The following is from [Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1831] and must be read in the context of that date.
  
  "GULVAL, a parish in the hundred of PENWITH county of CORNWALL, 1½ mile (N.E.) from Penzance, containing 1353 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconary of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £6. 11. 0½., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Gulwal. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A stream, called Dane river, from its passing under a bridge of that name, runs through the parish, in its course to Mount's Bay. Several tin mines have been worked in the northern part of the parish, but being in an exhausted state, they are now almost relinquished. At Rosemorren are the remains of a cromlech, near which several sculptured stones, earthern urns containing ashes, burnt bones, and ancient belt, etc., have been found. There is a spring called Gulfwell, or the Hebrew brook, which is held in great veneration by the superstitious."

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• Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1856 covering Gulval.
• Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1873 covering Gulval.
• Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1883 covering Gulval.
• Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1893 covering Gulval (including Trevarrack).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Gulval 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.
• The West Penwith Resources have produced a genealogical website for the parish.

The Domesday Settlements of Cornwall, a study undertaken by the Cornwall Branch of the Historical Association, has identified and located settlements listed in the Exeter and Exchequer Domesday Survey of AD 1086. The following places have been identified in Gulval ecclesiastical parish:

• Gulval (Landicla, Landicle), Grid Reference 485317.

• Map of the Penzance Registration District in which the parish lies.
• A separate map of Gulval parish, which places it in context with its neighbours, is also available on-line.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW466333 (Lat/Lon: 50.145728, -5.548846), Gulval 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.

Apprenticeship Indentures for Gulval (1773 - 1832) can be found in the Cornwall Record Office.

• Gulval parish was part of the Penzance Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.
• Overseers' Accounts (1784 to 1825), Settlement papers (1737 to 1818) and Bastardy Bonds (1616 - 1807), are available in the Cornwall Record Office.

Gulval was incorporated into parishes of Penzance, Madron and Ludgvan in 1934. Population figures from 1951 are usually included with Penzance.

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)

Wills & Admons for Gulval parish, 1660-1773 are available on-line.

The Penwith Local History Group aims:

• To encourage and sustain public interest in the history of Penwith to provide mutual support and encouragement to members in their individual research projects, whether related to Penwith or of wider historical interest.
• To work as a group on specific research projects, with the aim of publication to an academic standard.
• To encourage the strong link with the Morrab Library, supporting the Library in its aims and activities.

The parish comprises 4355 acres of land.

The Gulval Register of Electors in 1914 is available on-line.