Penponds

• Transcriptions from Penponds cemetery are available on Christine Uphill's Cornish Cemeteries site.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 800 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. In the 1841 Census, Penponds was enumerated as part of Camborne.
• 1851. The 1851 Census of Penponds (HO107/1916) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 1g and 1h.
  • Enumeration Districts 1n and 1o.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Penponds (RG9/1584) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 7 and 9.
  • Enumeration Districts 15 and 16.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Penponds is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • RG10/2324. Enumeration District 7 (St Martin's, Tuckingmill - All Saints, and Penponds).
  • RG10/2325. Enumeration Districts 8 and 9.
  • RG10/2326. Enumeration District 15. (It should be noted that this Enumeration District includes parts of Treslothan and Camborne parishes).
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Penponds is available on-line from the Cornwall On-line Census project as follows:
  • RG11/2335. Enumeration District 11.
  • RG11/2336. Enumeration Districts 12 to 14.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Penponds (RG12/1851) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 11 to 14.
  • Enumeration Districts 15 and 16.
  • Enumeration Districts 17 and 18.

• Anglican. The ecclesiastical parish of Penponds was formed in 1846 from Camborne civil parish. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW6339 and was dedicated to: The Holy Trinity. This was built in 1854 out of stone with granite quoins in the early English style. It comprises a chancel, nave, north aisle, vestry. The arcade is of four arches, and there is a stone bell-cote, pierced for two bells. The registers date from 1854, although the parish was not gazetted until 1 January 1857. In 1901, the church was restored and decorated.
  The ecclesiastical parish is now linked to Crowan parish.
• Non-conformists. The Bible Christians had a chapel at Penponds, the United Methodists had a chapel at Barripper, and the Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel at Kehelland.

The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1854 - 1997, Burials 1854 - 1998, Marriages 1854 - 1989.

The parish of Penponds is in the Registration District of Camborne-Redruth, and has been since its creation.

The address of the Superintendant Registrar is: Roskear, Camborne, TR14 8DN. Tel: 01209 612924.

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• Kelly'S 1873 Directory of Penponds.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Penponds 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 OPC has produced a genealogical website for the Town of Camborne.

• Map of the Camborne and Redruth Registration district in which the parish lies.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW635391 (Lat/Lon: 50.204814, -5.315281), Penponds 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.

Penponds parish was part of the Redruth Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

The parish of Penponds was created from Camborne parish in 1857. Population figures before this date are with that parish.

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 consists of 1956 acres of land.