Summary information

Study title

Cornish Parish Records: West Penwith and Kerrier, 1580-1903

Creator

Donohue, D., Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

Study number / PID

5001 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-5001-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


These transcriptions were produced by a volunteer from the Online-Parish-Clerks of Cornwall Project. Volunteers collect, collate and transcribe records for a chosen parish in the county. The data originates from as many sources as can be accessed, including census, parish registers, cemetery records and parish histories.

Data covering the years 1903- 2002 has been deposited with History Data Service, but for data protection reasons has not been included in this study at present. Periodic updates will be made to the data that is currently available.

Main Topics:

This resource represents a transcription of baptisms, marriages and burials from parish records from the West Penwith and Kerrier areas of Cornwall. The transcriptions cover from West Penwith the parishes of Gulval, Isle of Scilly, Madron, Marazion, Paul, Pendeen, Perranuthnoe, Newlyn St Peter, St Just, St Levan, St Hilary, St Michael’s Mount, Sancreed, Sennen and from Kerrier the parishes of Coverack, Cury, Germoe, Gunwalloe, Helston, Landewednack, Mannacan, Mawgan Meneage, Mullion, Ruan Major, Ruan Minor, St Anthony in Meneage, St Keverne, St Martin in Meneage.

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/2004 - 01/09/2004

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
Subnational

Universe

Persons recorded in the paish records of West Penwith and Kerrier, Cornwall

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Text
Numeric

Data collection mode

Transcription of existing materials

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2004

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

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