St Just-In-Penwith

• In the churchyard are numbers of small granite headstones, the greater part bearing initials and dates only. Mark Hattam has posted photographs of many gravestones.
• The Gravestone Photographic Resource project have recorded some 194 persons in 75 graves for St Just's churchyard. The Wesleyan churchyard in St Just, separately has 20 names listed in 6 graves.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for:
  • The Parish Church - 703 entries
  • Municipal Cemetery - 1027 entries
  • Wesleyan Chapel - 1726 entries.
• War Memorial inscriptions for St Just parish are separately available.

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 Just-in-Penwith (HO107/144) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 1-4.
  • Enumeration Districts 5-7.
  • Enumeration Districts 8 (including Merchant Shipping and Lighthouse) to 10.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of St Just-in-Penwith (HO107/1919) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
    • Enumeration Districts 3e, 3f, 3g and 3h.
    • Enumeration Districts 3i, 3j, 3k, and 3l.
  • The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have compiled separate surname indexes of the 1851 Census for each Cornish registration district; St Just-in-Penwith is listed in Volume 29. 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 Just-in-Penwith is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • RG9/1597. Enumeration Districts 9 to 11.
  • RG9/1598. Enumeration Districts 12 to 14.
  • RG9/1598. Enumeration Districts 15 and 16.
• 1871.
  • The 1871 Census of St Just-in-Penwith is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
    • RG10/2343. Enumeration Districts 5 and 6.
    • RG10/2344. Enumeration Districts 9, 10 and 11.
    • RG10/2345:
      • Enumeration Districts 12 to 14.
      • Enumeration Districts 15 and 16.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of St Just-in-Penwith is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • RG11/2349. Enumeration District 9, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • RG11/2350:
    • Enumeration Districts 10 to 13.
    • Enumeration Districts 14 to 16 [including Merchant Shipping].
• 1891. The 1891 Census of St Just-in-Penwith (RG12/1860) are available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 9 to 13, [including Workhouses].
  • Enumeration Districts 14 to 16.
• 1901. The 1901 Census of St Just-in-Penwith (RG13/2257) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 8 and 9.
  • Enumeration Districts 10 to 12.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW3731 and was dedicated to St Just.
  Bishop Grandisson dedicated the high-altar of a church at this place on the 13th of July, 1336, the same day with St. Madron; but nothing now remains of that church, for the east end of the chancel, which was the only portion of it that remained at that time, was taken down to be rebuilt in the year 1834. The rest of the church was erected late in the fifteenth century, and it is of nearly the same plan as that for St. Burian.
  The church comprises a chancel, nave, north and south aisles and a vestry. When the east end of the chancel was taken down in 1834, an inscribed stone was found indicating that the monument marked the grave of an ecclesiastic of some dignity. In the same wall were found the fragments of a piscina and the capital of a Norman pier. The south arcade has six arches of irregular bredths, some pointed and others semi-circular. The north arcade has five arches of similar character. The arms are those of Ardwenack, Boscawenrose, Bray or Brea, and probably of Petit. The material of the arches and pillars is Caen stone. The tower arch is circular and has a plain soffit. There is a south porch, embattled and supported by buttresses with rudely cut finnials; a staircase from the inside led up to the roof. There is also a priest's door. In the north wall are a north door and vestry door, both blocked. The tower is of three stages and is finished with battlements and pinnacles; it contains three bells and a clock.
  Further history of St Just church is available.
• Non-Conformist. Within the parish were chapels for the Wesleyans, Bible Christians and the United Methodist Free Church. The Wesleyan chapel (Bojewyan) is now a private house, converted in the 1990s and called "Sleepy Hollow".

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for St Just-in-Penwith are: E020312, M020311, M020312, P020311. These are searchable by surname.
  • LDS Film numbers are: 1630-1783 [0226216], 1784-1847 [0226217], 1847-1959 [0226218], 1630-81 (births 1653-60), 1681-1733, 1734-83, 1784-1812, 1813-1905 [1596685].
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1599 - 1877.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1630 - 1922, Burials 1599 - 1975, Marriages 1599 - 1980, Boyd's Marriage Index 1599 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1800 - 1812.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line transcripts of:
  • Pre 1813 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1679 to 1747 (bishop's transcripts), and 1734 to 1911, for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD, baptisms 1708 to 1840 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest..
• Marriages
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Marriages 1599 to 1837, which is available in CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Phillimore's marriages 1599 to 1812, and marriage transcriptions 1813 to 1911, for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • Diane Donohue has also transcribed marriages at St Just-in-Penwith 1854 to 1872; these are on-line.
• Burials.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Burials 1813 to 1837, which is available in CD or Book formats.
  • Burials 1679 to 1773 (Bishop's transcripts), and 1750 to 1928 (transcripts), for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

The parish of St Just-in-Penwith has been in the Penzance Registration District continuously from 1st July 1837. There were originally sub-districts at Marazion, Penzance, St Buryan, St Just, St Ives and Uny-Lelant but these have now been abolished. Parishes within the district are: Gulval, Ludgvan, Madron, Marazion, Morvah, Penzance, Perranuthnoe, St. Buryan, St. Erth, St. Hilary, St. Ives, St. Just in Penwith, St. Levan, St. Michael's Mount, St. Paul, Sancreed, Sennen, Towednack, Uny-Lelant, Wolfe Rock Lighthouse, and Zennor. The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: Alphington House, Alverton Place, Penzance, TR18 4JJ. Tel: 01736 330093.

• Statistical Account of the Parish of St. Just: In Penwith, in the County of Cornwall, by John Buller (Published 1842), is available on-line, courtesy of the Old Cornwall Society.
• More photographs of St Just-in-Penwith are also available.
• Mark Hattam has posted some photographs of St Just.
• Pictures of the parish church, Methodist chapel, and other landmarks in St Just are also available.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• A copy of the Slater's Directory of 1852 for St Just and Sennen is available on-line.
• Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1873 St Just-in-Penwith.
• Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1883 St Just-in-Penwith.
• Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1893 St Just-in-Penwith.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from St Just-In-Penwith 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 West Penwith Resources has produced a website for St Just to help family historians.
• British-Genealogy have a mailing list for those wanting to discuss ancestry in St Just-in-Penwith.

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 St Just-in-Penwith ecclesiastical parish:

• Brea (Bret), Grid Reference 379280.
• Kelynack (Chelenoc, Chelenoch), Grid Reference 371300.

A website dedicated to the history of St Just is available.

• The parish and town tithe maps, and accompanying survey books of c1840, provide a fascinating snap-shot of land use and ownership in the 19th century. In order to preserve the documents and improve access to them, the Cornwall Record Office are digitising these maps and survey books. The CD ROM tithe package include a map and survey books, together with a reader, for this parish; it is now available from the Cornwall Record Office. Details are on their website.

The Manorial Documents Register (MDR) maintained by the Historic Manuscripts Commission notes that, so far as can be established, the parish of St Just in Penwith contained the manors of: Bojewyan, Kelynack, Laffrander (also known as Lafronda), St Just in Penwith and Trewellard.

The MDR contains the following information for these manors:

• Bojewyan Manor.
  Rentals 1811-14, 1880, rental with Trelissick 1802, rentals with other manors 1786-1887 (non consecutive), 1936-43, surveys 1771, 1809, 1830, map 1772-73, papers 19th cent and book of lives, with other manors 1812, 1815, 1820, 1831, 1847, 1872 in the Cornwall Record Office, Old County Hall, Truro TR1 3AY (collection ref: DD.WH).
• Kelynack Manor.
  Receiver's accounts c1690 in the Public Record Office, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU (ref: C107/112).
  • Rent rolls from 1728. In 1925 these were in the possession of RE Tonkin of Treverven, St Buryan.
  • Papers relating to mill leat c1724 are in the Cornwall Record Office, Old County Hall, Truro TR1 3AY (collection ref: DDX 6).
  • Survey nd in the Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, California 91108, USA (collection ref: EL (catalogue ref: vol 3, p824)).
• Laffrander or Lafronda Manor.
  Rental with Lelant 1737-49 in the Public Record Office (ref: C116/28).
• St Just (?St Just in Penwith) Manor.
  Bounds book c1737 in Cornwall Record Office (collection ref: DDX 6).
  Survey and valuation with other manors 1794 in the Cornwall Record Office (ref: Acc. Apr-June 1969). (It is not certain whether this is St Just in Penwith manor).
• Trewellard Manor.
  Rent roll 1545-46 and court roll 1546-48 in the British Library, Manuscript Collections, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB (ref: Add MSS 32958 (9), 32965 (4).
  Survey book 1885 in the Cornwall Record Office (ref: Acc. Apr.-June 1957).

• Map of the Penzance Registration District in which the parish lies.
• A map showing St Just-in-Penwith in the context of its neighbours is available.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW371317 (Lat/Lon: 50.126998, -5.679293), St Just-In-Penwith 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 GRENFELL (GREENFIELD, GRENFIELD, GRINFIELD, GREENFILL) family of St Just is available on the Grenfell Family History Site. These include: baptisms, marriages, burials and census information.

• Information about the Mines around St Just is available on the Cornish Mining World Heritage site

• St Just-in-Penwith parish was part of the Penzance Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.
• Overseers' Accounts (1768 to 1789) are available in the Cornwall Record Office.

The parish of Pendeen was created from part of this parish in 1849.

• Wills & Admons for St Just-in-Penwith parish, 1660-1730 are available on-line.

• The St Just & Pendeen Old Cornwall Society News Page is on-line.
• The Penwith Local History Group aims:
  • To encourage and sustain public interest in the history of Penwith to provide mutual support and encouragement to members in their individual research projects, whether related to Penwith or of wider historical interest.
  • To work as a group on specific research projects, with the aim of publication to an academic standard.
  • To encourage the strong link with the Morrab Library, supporting the Library in its aims and activities.

The parish comprises 7622 acres of land, 12 acres of water and 117 acres of foreshore.