Pendeen

• The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 1709 entries.
• War Memorial inscriptions for Pendeen parish are separately available.

Census information for this parish (1851 - 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. In the 1841 Census, Pendeen was enumerated as part of St Just-in-Penwith.
• 1851. The 1851 Census of Pendeen (HO107/1519), Enumeration Districts 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Pendeen is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • RG9/1596. Enumeration Districts 5 and 6.
  • RG9/1597. Enumeration Districts 7 and 8.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Pendeen (RG10/2344), Enumeration Districts 7 and 8, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census Project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Pendeen (RG11/2349), Enumeration Districts 5 to 8, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Pendeen (RG12/1860), Enumeration Districts 5 to 8, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1901. The 1901 Census of Pendeen (RG13/2257) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census Project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 4 to 6.
  • Enumeration District 7.
  • Merchant Shipping & Lighthouses.

• Anglican. The ecclesiastical parish of Pendeen was formed in 1845 from St Just parish. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW3834 and was dedicated to St John the Baptist.
  The ecclesiastical district was gazetted on January 9th, 1846. The church, which is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was built in 1854. It was designed by the then incumbent, the Rev. Robert Aitken, on the plan of the ancient cathedral of Iona. He was not only the architect but also the master builder, and the parishioners of the district their own masons and carpenters. This very fine cruciform church which is 135 feet long, and lofty in proportion, cost little more than the value of the materials. It was built entirely by the people of the village and chiefly in their extra hours. Such circumstances invest Pendeen church with an interest which attaches to no other modern church in the county. [More recent observers are less charitible both about the quality of the architecture and the exploitation of the parishioners in building it at their own expense.]. The church registers date from 1849.
  The church comprises a chancel, nave, transepts and south porch. There is also an embattled western tower into which a clock was inserted in 1889. This tower contains 12 tubular bells which were installed in 1908.
• Non-Conformists. There were chapels here for the Wesleyans, built in 1838, the Bible Christians and United Methodists.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Pendeen are: P021721. These are searchable by surname.
  • Pendeen is covered under St Just-in-Penwith in the IGI.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1849 - 1956, Burials 1854 - 1975, Marriages 1854 - 1984.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1849 to 1901 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC Search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • Trewellard Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel baptisms 1894 to 1901 are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • Baptisms at Pendeen 1849 to 1903 have also been placed on-line by West Penwith Resources.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have transcripts of Baptisms 1849-1953.
• Marriages.
  • Marriages 1854 to 1912 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC Search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • Marriages at Pendeen 1854 to 1901 have also been placed on-line by West Penwith Resources.
• Burials. Burials 1854 to 1901 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

Pendeen is in the Penzance Registration District, and has been since its creation. There were originally sub-districts at Marazion, Penzance, St Buryan, St Just, St Ives and Uny-Lelant but these have now been abolished.

The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: Alphington House, Alverton Place, Penzance, TR18 4JJ. Tel: 01736 330093.

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• Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1893 covering Pendeen.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Pendeen 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.
• Further information on Pendeen has been produced by the West Penwith Resources.

• Map of the Penzance Registration District in which the parish lies.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW383344 (Lat/Lon: 50.151331, -5.664526), Pendeen 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.

• Information about the Mines around St Just and Pendeen is available on-line.
• The National Trust site for the Levant Mine in Pendeen

Pendeen parish became part of the Penzance Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief on its creation.

Up to 1981 the population figures were often included as part of St Just-in-Penwith. Those that have been recorded for Pendeen separately are as follows:

The St Just & Pendeen Old Cornwall Society News Page is on-line.