St Wenn

The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line Monumental Inscriptions for:

• The Parish Church - 139 entries.
• Tregonetha Methodist Chapel - 19 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 Wenn (HO107/150), (Enumeration Districts 12 and 13), is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851. The 1851 Census of St Wenn (HO107/1905), (Enumeration Districts 3a and 3b) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of St Wenn (RG9/1543) (Enumeration Districts 10 and 11), is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of St Wenn (RG10/2256), Enumeration Districts 10B and 11A,is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of St Wenn (RG11/2297), Enumeration Districts 5 and 6, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of St Wenn (RG12/1819), (Enumeration District 12 and 13), is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW9664 and was dedicated to St Wenna. It comprises a chancel (which was rebuilt in 1823), nave, and north and south aisles. The arcades each comprise three depressed four-centred arches supported on monolith pillars; the material is St Stephens porcelain stone. The chief entrance is a south porch; a north door and a west door to the north aisle are blocked up. The tower only consists of two stages; a third was destroyed by lightning in 1663. It is of massive proportions and superior workmanship showing that it once was a noble structure. It is buttressed on the square. The belfry contained five bells.
  A chapel at Carenzawatha was dedicated to St Mary Magdalane; it was destroyed in the Civil War and only some slight remains are now evident.
• Non-Conformist. There were Bible Christian chapels at Tregonetha and Rosnannon; the Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel at Rosnannon.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for St Wenn are: C053481, C021582, P021581. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1608 - 1875.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1706 - 1865, Burials 1706 - 1892, Marriages 1706 - 1968, Boyd's Marriage Index 1609 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1790 - 1812, BTs 1609 - 1673.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line transcripts of:
  • Pre 1813 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials
• Other Non-Conformist Records. OPC Coverage of Non-Conformist records of this parish is available.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1708 to 1912 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • St Wenn Methodist Chapels' baptisms 1890 to 1901 are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1724 to 1851 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Banns. Banns 1754 to 1812, and 1823 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Marriages.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Marriages in the Parish 1678 to 1837, which is available in CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Phillimore marriages 1678 to 1812, and marriage transcrips 1706 to 1910, in this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Burials.
  • Burials 1707 to 1892, and 1899 to 1936, for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Burials in the Parish 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book format.

The parish of St Wenn was originally in the St Columb Registration District. There were sub-districts at Newlyn, Padstow and St Columb Major, but these have now been abolished. It is now in the Registration District of St Austell. Parishes within the old St Columb district were: Colan, Crantock, Cubert, Little Petherick, Mawgan-in-Pydar, Newlyn, Newquay, Padstow, St. Breock, St. Columb Major, St. Columb Minor, St. Enoder, St. Ervan, St. Eval, St. Issey, St. Merryn, St. Wenn.

The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: 12 Carlyon Road, St Austell, PL25 4LD. Tel: 01726 68974. Fax: 01726 68974.

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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from St Wenn 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.

• There is a map of the St Austell Registration districtin which the parish lies.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW962655 (Lat/Lon: 50.45342, -4.872125), St Wenn 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 Wenn parish was part of the St Columb Major Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

The parish comprises 4695 acres of land.