Kenwyn

The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 3232 entries. These are available on-line.

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 Kenwyn (HO107/147) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 1-4.
  • Enumeration Districts 5-10.
  • Enumeration Districts 11-15.
  • Enumeration Districts 16-19 [including Hospitals].
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of Kenwyn (HO107/1910) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
    • Enumeration Districts 1a, 1b, and 1c..
    • Truro, St George's parish. Enumeration Districts 1 (Hospitals), 1d, 1e, and 1f.
    • Enumeration Districts 1g, 1h, 1k, and 1l.
    • Baldhu parish. Enumeration Districts 1n.
    • Chacewater parish. Enumeration Districts 1o, 1p, 1q 1r and 1s.
    • Tregavethan. Enumeration District 1t.
  • The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have compiled separate surname indexes of the 1851 Census for each Cornish registration district; Kenwyn is listed in Volume 20. The booklets are available in Cornwall at the Cornwall Centre, (formerly known as the Cornish Studies Library).
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Kenwyn (RG9/1560), is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 6 (Truro, St George's parish), 7 and 8.
  • Enumeration District 9 (including Trigavethan) and 11.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Kenwyn is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • RG10/2284. Enumeration District 7.
  • RG10/2285. Enumeration Districts 8, 9 and 11.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Kenwyn (RG11/2313), Enumeration Districts 7 [including Schools], 8 and 9, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Kenwyn (RG12/1831), Enumeration Districts 7 [including schools], 8 and 9, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW8146 and was dedicated by Bishop Brandescombe on 27th September 1259 to St Kenwyn, the day after he had dedicated St Mary's in Truro. The church comprises a chancel, nave, south aisle, south transept and north transept (known as the Tregavethan aisle). The arcade has seven four-centred arches of St Stephens stone supported on pillars of the same material. A part of the north transept is used as a vestry. This aisle was rebuilt in 1855 by the owner of Tregavethan Manor. The south transept was rebuilt in 1820, and again in 1862. There is a south porch, a priest's door, and a vestry door. The tower is of three stages, buttressed on the square, and finished with battlements and pinnacles.
  In 1819 the church had become so delapidated through extreme old age that it was considered unsafe for further use. The church was completely reconstructed and was reoped for divine worship on 8th October 1820. On 20th December 1860, during a terrific thunderstorm, the tower was struck by lighning, and one of the pinnacles and the roof of the nave considerably damaged.
  
  There is also a Mission Church at Idless in this parish. Details about the plans of the modern church (ICBS) are available on-line.
  A chapel of St John was built in Lemon Street, Truro, in 1837-8; this became a separate parish. Another ecclesiastical district of St George was gazetted in 1846, and created from Kenwyn. All Saints Highertown is a new church (built in 1980) on the outskirts of Truro. It is in the diocese of Truro and the parish was divided from the neighbouring Kenwyn parish in 1984 with the addition of the parish of Baldhu and has a population at the beginning of the 21st century of almost 6,000. Details about the plans of this modern church (ICBS) are available on-line..
  
  A Mission Church was built in Shortlanesend in 1884. Details about the plans of that church (ICBS) are available on-line.
• Non-Conformist. Dissenting chapels in this parish were available for the Wesleyan Methodists in Fairmantle Street, the Baptists in River Street, Methodist New Connexion in Castle Street, and for the United Methodist Free Church in Kenwyn Street.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Kenwyn are: C022951/2/3, C052821/2. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1608 - 1875; it is NOT believed to be fully included in the LDS Church's International Genealogical Index (IGI).
• LaVelda Faull of Glasgow, KY, USA. has transcribed some entries from the Parish Registers of the Kenwyn Parish:
  • Baptisms.
  • Banns.
  • Marriages.
  • Burials.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1662 - 1971, Burials 1670 - 1977, Marriages 1662 - 1988, Boyd's Marriage Index 1559 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1800 - 1812.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line transcripts of:
  • Pre 1813 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1800 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Banns. Banns 1853 to 1912 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 1608 to 1837, which is available in CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Phillimore's marriages 1559 to 1812, and marriage transcriptions 1800 to 1911, for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Burials.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Burials 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book and CD formats.
  • Burials 1800 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

The parish of Kenwyn has been in the Truro Registration District continuously from 1st July 1837. There were sub-districts at Kea, Kenwyn, Probus, St. Agnes, St. Clement and St Just-in-Roseland, but these have now been abolished. Parishes in this registration district are: Cornelly, Cuby, Feock, Gerrans, Kea, Kenwyn, Ladock, Lamorran, Merther, Perranzabuloe, Philleigh, Probus, Ruan Lanihorne, St. Agnes, St. Allen, St. Anthony in Roseland, St. Clement, St. Erme, St. Feock, St. Just in Roseland, St. Michael Penkevil, Tregavethan, Tregony St. James, Truro St. Mary, Veryan.

The address of the Registration Office is: Dalvenie House, New County Hall, Truro, TR1 3AY.
Tel: 01872 322241.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Kenwyn 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 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 Kenwyn ecclesiastical parish:

• Bosvisack (Beuesehoc, Beveshoc), Grid Reference 781461.
• Idless (Edelet), Grid Reference 821474.
• Trehaverne (Tregauran, Tregavran), Grid Reference 822454.

• Map of the Truro Registration District in which the parish lies.
• An old map of the parishes of Kenwyn, St Clement and Truro, St Mary in 1835 is available on-line from GENMAPS.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW820458 (Lat/Lon: 50.27187, -5.061178), Kenwyn 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.

• Kenwyn parish was part of the Truro Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.
• Overseers' Accounts (1670 to 1727) are available in the Cornwall Record Office.

General Notes.

• Mithian was created from part of this parish in 1847; however, up to 1971, population figures still include Mithian. From 1981, the figures for Mithian were counted separately.
• From 1911, Kenwyn parish was reduced to an area called Kenwyn Rural; the remainder, which was known as Kenwyn Urban, was enumerated as part of the City of Truro.

Population Statistics:

Kenwyn parish comprises 8062 acres of land. Mithian was created from part of parish in 1847.