Philleigh

• The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions (MI) for the Parish Church - 287 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 Philleigh (HO107/148), Enumeration District 4, is also available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of Philleigh (HO107/1909), Enumeration District 3, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • Part of the 1851 Census of Philleigh is available from the West-Penwith resources as part of the 1851 British Census 2% sample - Cornwall.
  • The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have compiled separate surname indexes of the 1851 Census for each Cornish registration district. Entries for Philleigh are contained in Volume 17. The booklets are available in Cornwall at the Cornwall Centre, (formerly known as the Cornish Studies Library), and is also in the Library of the Cornwall FHS from which it can be purchased.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Philleigh (RG9/1553), Enumeration District 6 [including Merchant Shipping], is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Philleigh (RG10/2275), Enumeration District 6, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Philleigh (RG11/2307), Enumeration District 6, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Philleigh (RG12/1827), Enumeration District 6, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW8739 and was dedicated to St Filius or St. Felicitas. There was a church here from the 13th century, although the present building dates from the 15th century. It comprises a chancel, nave, south aisle and a north trancept - a portion of which is used as a vestry. The tower has two stages and has a single buttress at the square of the western angles. It is finished with battlements and contains three bells. The churchyard is entered by a lych gate.
• Non-Conformist. A Wesleyan Chapel was built in the Churchtown in 1838 and there was another sited at Treworlas.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Philleigh are: C053001, C023151, E053001, M053001. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1612 - 1875.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1733 - 1954, Marriages 1733 - 1979, Burials 1733 - 1955, Boyd's Marriage Index 1597 - 1673, Pallot's Marriage Index 1790 - 1812, Bishops Transcripts 1597 - 1673.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line transcripts of:
  • Pre 1813 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1613 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The baptisms of the St Mawes Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, taken from LDS film 2276204, images 1789-1989 (courtesy of the Church of Latter Day Saints) are available on-line, courtesy of the OPC. These records relate to the whole of the Roseland Peninsula including St Mawes, St Just in Roseland, St Anthony in Roseland, Gerrans, Portscatho, Philleigh, Veryan, Ruan Lanihorne etc.
• Marriages.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Marriages 1601 to 1837, which is available in CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Phillimore's marriages 1613 to 1837, together with parish marriages 1613 to 1912, 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 format.
  • Burials 1613 to 1825, and 1755 to 1935, for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

The parish of Philleigh 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

• Kelly'S 1873 Directory of Philleigh.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Philleigh 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.
• Mailing List. British-genealogy.com operate a mailing list for anyone with a genealogical and or historical interest in the Parish of Philleigh. To post a message to all the list members, send an email to: opc-con-philleigh[at]british-genealogy[dot]com.

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 Philleigh ecclesiastical parish:

• Philleigh (Eglosroose, Eglossos, Egleshos), Grid Reference 871394.

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW872396 (Lat/Lon: 50.218182, -4.98458), Philleigh 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.

Philleigh parish was part of the Truro Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

In the May of 1641 it was agreed and ordered that every Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords should make a protestation (declaration of loyalty) to the crown. The Protestation was printed and then distributed by the Members to their counties. The Protestation was to be made by everyone and the Rectors, Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, had to appear before the Justices of the Peace in their Hundred to make their protestation and, on returning to their parishes, any two of them were to witness the taking of the Protestation Oath by all males over the age of 18 years. All names were listed and anyone who refused was to be noted.

The Protestation Returns of 1642 for Philleigh are available on-line.

The parish consists of 2403 acres of land, 20 acres of tidal water and 107 acres of foreshore.