Week St Mary

• The inscriptions from headstones, in the Parish Churchyard (PC) and Methodist Cemetery (MC), are available on-line.
• The details of those inscribed on the War Memorial are listed on-line.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church.

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 Week St Mary (HO107/151), Enumeration Districts 3 to 5, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of Week St Mary (HO107/1897), Enumeration Districts 2a and 2b, 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; Week St Mary is listed in Volume 5. 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 Week St Mary (RG9/1514), Enumeration District 7B and 8C, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Week St Mary (RG10/2217), Enumeration Districts 7b and 8b, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Week St Mary (RG11/2271), Enumeration Districts 7 and 8, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Week St Mary (RG12/1798), Enumeration Districts 3 and 4, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. There was formerly a chapel at Goscote, dedicated to St. Lawrence. This chapel of St. Laurence at Goscote was licensed in 1380. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX2397; it is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. It comprises a chancel, nave, and north and south aisles. The north arcade has five four-centred arches, with monolith granite pillars; the south arcade also has five arches, three of which are obtuse pointed, and two obtuse four-centred. The pillars are of Polyphant stone and granite. The entrances are a south porch and a priest's door; the north door is not used. The tower is of granite ashlar; it has three stages and is 99 feet in height, including its pinnacles. It was built in 1643, contains five bells, and is finished with battlements and crocketed pinnacles which terminate with crosses.
  The parish is now united with Poundstock and Whitstone.
• Non-Conformist. The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel at Week Orchard (built pre-1800), and the United Methodist Free Church (built in 1844) had a chapel in the Churchtown. The Bible Christians built the Zion chapel within the village in 1843, and another at Bakesdon (Bakesdown) in 1833. The year 1907 saw the demise of the title "Bible Christian Society" when it combined with the "United Methodist Free Church" and the "Methodist New Connexion" to form "The United Methodist Church". This union, and the later one in 1932 when "United Methodists", "Weslyans" and "Primitive Methodists" formed "The Methodist Church", produced little real change. At Week St. Mary the two chapels (Week St. Mary Bible Christian and Week Green United Methodist Free Church) continued their respective societies following the 1907 and 1932 amalgamations until 1934 when the Week Green chapel was closed and the premises converted for use as a caretaker's bungalow.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Week St Mary are: C053281, C032731, M032731. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage for this parish is 1602 - 1812.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1602 - 1981, Burials 1602 - 1982, Marriages 1602 - 1978, Boyd's Marriage Index 1602 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1790 - 1812.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published 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 1754 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • Week St Mary Bible Christian Chapel baptisms 1838 to 1879, and 1870 to 1911, are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1740 to 1843 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Marriages.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Marriages in the Parish 1602 to 1837, which is available in CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Phillimore's marriages 1602 to 1812, and parish transcripts 1754 to 1911, in this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD marriages 1754 to 1812 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Burials.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Burials in the Parish 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book format.
  • Burials 1759 to 1936 in this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

The parish of Week St Mary is in the Stratton Registration District, and has been since 1st July 1837; there were sub-districts at Kilhampton, Stratton and Week St Mary but these have now been abolished. Parishes within the district are: Jacobstow, Kilkhampton, Launcells, Marhamchurch, Morwenstow, Poughill, Poundstock, St. Gennys, Stratton, Stratton and Bude, Week St. Mary, Whitstone. The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: The Parkhouse Centre, Ergue Gaberic Way, Bude, EX23 8LF. Tel: 01288 353209.

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• Post Office Directory for Week St Mary ~ 1856.
• Kelly's Directory for Week St Mary ~ 1873.
• Kelly's Directory for Week St Mary ~ 1883.
• Kelly's Directory for Week St Mary ~ 1893.
• Kelly's Directory for Week St Mary ~ 1906.
• Kelly's Directory for Week St Mary ~ 1926.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Week St Mary 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.
• The OPC has produced a family history website for the parish.

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 Week St Mary ecclesiastical parish:

• Week Orchard (Orcert), Grid Reference 235004.
• Week St Mary (Wihc, Wich), Grid Reference 237977.

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SX242971 (Lat/Lon: 50.746803, -4.492684), Week St Mary 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.

The Muster Roll for Weeke Mary of 1569 is available on-line.

Apprenticeship Indentures for Week St Mary (1768 - 1827) can be found in the Cornwall Record Office.

• Week St Mary parish was part of the Stratton Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.
• Overseers' Accounts (1709 to 1742), Settlement Papers (1741 to 1849) and Bastardy Bonds (1755 to 1821), are available in the Cornwall Record Office.
• Some snippets relating to events (such as bastardy orders, maintenance payments, etc.) in Week St Mary and surrounding parishes, are available on-line.

• In the May of 1641 it was agreed and ordered that every Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords should make a protestation (declaration of loyalty) to the crown. The Protestation was printed and then distributed by the Members to their counties. The Protestation was to be made by everyone and the Rectors, Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, had to appear before the Justices of the Peace in their Hundred to make their protestation and, on returning to their parishes, any two of them were to witness the taking of the Protestation Oath by all males over the age of 18 years. All names were listed and anyone who refused was to be noted.
  The Protestation Returns of 1642 for Week St Mary are available on-line.
• A list of the Rectors' of Week St Mary is available on-line.

• Week St Mary Primary School is described. Some extracts from its records are on-line.
• A history and details of The Old College are on-line.

The Bude, Stratton and District OLD CORNWALL SOCIETY covers the parishes of Morwenstow, Marhamchurch, Kilkhampton, Launcells, Poundstock, Week St. Mary, Warbstow, Whitestone, St. Gennys, Poughill and, of course, Bude & Stratton.

The parish comprises 6123 acres of land.