St Clether

The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 202 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 St Clether (HO107/140), Enumeration District 7, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of St Clether (HO107/1898), Enumeration District 4, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have compiled separate surname indexes of the 1851 Census for each Cornish registration district; St Clether is listed in Volume 4. The booklets are available in Cornwall at the Cornwall Centre, (formerly known as the Cornish Studies Library), and is also available in the Cornwall FHS Library.
• 1861.
  • The 1861 Census of St Clether (RG9/1516), Enumeration District 7, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of St Clether (RG10/2220), Enumeration District 7, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of St Clether (RG11/2273), Enumeration District 7, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891.
  • The 1891 Census of St Clether (RG12/1800), Enumeration District 5, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX2056284357 and was dedicated to St Cleder, or Clederus, on 23rd October 1259. He was one of the twenty-four children of St Brechan, a Welsh saint and king, in the 4th century. The church was antintly considered as part of the manor of Treglasta, which lies chiefly in Altarnun, but the sire of which is in Davidstow. In 1865, the church was almost entirely rebuilt - only the tower precedes this date. It comprises a chancel, nave, south aisle, and vestry. The arcade consists of three low round piers, and one square; the arches are segmental and acutely pointed, with plain soffits. There is a south porch and a priest's door; the west, or tower door, is blocked. The tower, built of granite, is on three stages, and is embattled. It now contains five bells.
• Non-Conformist. There were Chapels here for the Wesleyans and the Bible Christians.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for St Clether are: C023181/2, E023181, M023181.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1640 - 1875.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1640 - 1979, Burials 1640 - 1975, Marriages 1640 - 1964, Boyd's Marriage Index 1640 - 1811, Pallot's Marriage Index 1790 - 1812, BTs 1610 - 1673.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line transcripts of:
  • Pre-1813 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1640 to 1911, and Bishop's transcripts 1676 to 1771, are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1727 to 1812 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Marriages.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Marriages 1610 to 1837, which is available in Book, CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Phillimore marriages in the parish church 1640 to 1811, the Bishop's transcripts 1676 to 1770, and partial parish transcripts 1817 to 1910, are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD marriages 1730 to 1811 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Burials.
  • Burials 1676 to 1776 (Bishop's transcripts), and 1680 to 1910 (parish transcripts), are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD burials 1730 to 1812 for this parishwhich can be purchased on Parish Chest.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Burials 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book or CD formats.

Although originally in the Camelford Registration District, the parish of St Clether is now in the Bodmin Registration District; there were sub-districts at Boscastle and Camelford but these are now abolished. Parishes within the Camelford district were: Advent, Davidstow, Forrabury, Lanteglos, Lesnewth, Michaelstow, Minster, Otterham, St. Breward, St. Clether, St. Juliot, St. Teath, Tintagel, Trevalga.

The Superintendant Registrar of Bodmin can be contacted at: Lyndhurst, 66 Nicholas Street, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 2AG. Tel: 01208 73677.

• A website describing the parish is also available.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from St Clether 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 Camelford Registration District in which the parish originally lay.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SX191847 (Lat/Lon: 50.633684, -4.55879), St Clether 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.

St Clether parish was part of the Camelford Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

The parish comprises 2961 acres of land and 5 acres of water.