South Petherwin

The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line monumental inscriptions for:

• The Parish Church - 687 entries
• Methodist Chapel - 302 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 South Petherwin (HO107/134), Enumeration Districts 9 to 11, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • The census has also been filmed by the LDS church - film No. 241258.
• 1851. The 1851 Census of South Petherwin (HO107/1899), Enumeration Districts 1a and 1b, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of South Petherwin (RG9/1521), Enumeration Districts 10 and 11, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of South Petherwin (RG10/2207), Enumeration Districts 10 and 11, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of South Petherwin (RG11/2278), Enumeration Districts 10 and 11, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of South Petherwin (RG12/1805), Enumeration District 10 and 11 is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX3081 and was dedicated to St Paternus. It consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, and vestry. The chancel was restored in the 19th century. The arcades each consist of six four-centred arches, supported on monolith granite pillars. There are north and south porches. The tower has three stages, and is buttressed on the square; it is wholly built of local stone apart from the battlements and pinnacles which are of granite. The belfry contains five bells and a clock.
• Non-Conformist. There was a Wesleyan Methodist and a Baptist chapel in the Churchtown, and a Bible Christian chapel at Trecrogo Lane-end.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for South Petherwin are: M866941. These are searchable by surname.
  • This parish is NOT included in the LDS Church's International Genealogical Index (IGI).
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1656 - 1979, Burials 1656 - 1978, Marriages 1656 - 1978, Boyd's Marriage Index 1656 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1790 -1812, BTs 1608 - 1673.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of:
  • Pre 1813 Marriage
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials.
• Baptisms.
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1736 to 1840 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Marriages.
  • Phillimore marriages 1656 to 1812, and marriage transcriptions 1736 to 1781 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Marriages 1608 to 1837, which is available in CD or downloadable .pdf formats.
• Burials.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Burials 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book format.

The parish of South Petherwin is in the Launceston Registration District, and has been since 1st July 1837. There were sub-districts at Altarnun, Launceston, North Hill, North Petherwin and St Stephen-by-Launceston, but these are now all closed. Parishes within the district were: Altarnun, Boyton, Egloskerry, Laneast, Launceston, Lawhitton, Lewannick, Lezant, Northill, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Stephens by Launceston, St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Thomas Street, South Petherwin, Stokeclimsland, Tremaine, Treneglos, Tresmeer, Trewen, Warbstow.

The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: Hendra, Dunheved Road, Launceston, PL15 9JG. Tel: 01566 772464.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from South Petherwin 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.

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SX305817 (Lat/Lon: 50.610344, -4.396318), South Petherwin 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.

South Petherwin parish was part of the Launceston Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief. Overseers' Accounts (1778 to 1828) are available in the Cornwall Record Office.

The parish comprised 5070 acres of land and 5 acres of water.