St Keyne

The Liskeard and District Museum have a database of parish records for Liskeard and St Keyne. They can be contacted by e-mail; the address is: museum[at]liskeard.gov[dot]uk.

The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 400 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 Keyne (HO107/153), Enumeration District 18, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of St Keyne (HO107/1902), Enumeration District 6, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of St Keyne (RG9/1530), Enumeration District 18, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of St Keyne (RG10/2240), Enumeration District 18, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of St Keyne (RG11/2286), Enumeration District 18, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of St Keyne (RG12/1811), Enumeration District 18, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX2460. The church is dedicated to St Keyne the Virgin; it comprises a chancel, nave and north aisle. The chancel was rebuilt in 1868. The arcade has three obtuse arches supported on low monolith pillars; the material is granite. There is a south porch, an unused north door, and a priest's door. The tower is of three stages, and is finished with battlements and low crocketed pinnacles.
• Non-Conformists. There was a Free Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the Churchtown.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for St Keyne are: C053201, E0553201, M053201. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage this parish is 1539 - 1837.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1721 - 1939, Burials 1721 - 1978, Marriages 1722 - 1949, Boyd's Marriage Index 1608 - 1673, BTs 1608 - 1673.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of:
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1539 to 1673, 1684 to 1773 (Bishop's transcripts), 1683 to 1812, and 1813 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Banns. Banns 1758 to 1773 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Marriages.
  • Callington Area Heritage Centre (broken link) have placed on-line marriage records for St Keyne parish 1813 to 1837.
  • Marriages 1597 to 1837 (Bishop's transcripts), parish transcripts 1687 to 1772, 1824 to 1909, and 1837 to 1911, 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 1601 to 1837, which is available in Book, CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
• Burials.
  • Burials 1684 to 1772 (Bishop's transcripts), 1721 to 1837 and 1813 to 1936 (parish transcripts), for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Burials 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book and CD formats.

The parish of St Keyne has always been in the Liskeard Registration District. There were sub-districts at Callington, Lerrin, Liskeard and Looe, but these closed in the 1930s. Parishes within the district are: Boconnoc, Broadoak, Callington, Calstock (1837-60), Duloe, East Looe, Lanreath, Lansallos, Lanteglos, Linkinhorne, Liskeard, Liskeard Borough, Menheniot, Morval, Pelynt, St. Cleer, St. Dominick, St. Ive, St. Keyne, St. Martin's, St. Neot, St. Pinnock, St. Veep, Southill, Talland and West Looe. The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: Graylands, Dean Street, Liskeard, PL14 4AH. Tel: 01579 343442.

• Geograph
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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from St Keyne 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 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 Keyne ecclesiastical parish:

• Lametton (Lantmatin), Grid Reference 245610.

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SX241606 (Lat/Lon: 50.418805, -4.476704), St Keyne 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 Keyne parish was part of the Liskeard Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

The St Keyne Local History Group was formed when the new Village Hall was opened in August 1998 with the prime objective of collecting together and archiving all the information that could be found from as many sources as possible about the history of the properties, inhabitants and events of the village. Much of this information is now included in a book entitled The People of St.Keyne and provides a fascinating insight to the history of the village.

The parish comprised 942 acres of land.