Camborne Cornwall Family History Guide

Camborne is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Cornwall.

Other places in the parish include: Barripper, Roseworthy, and Adjewhells.

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1538
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1610

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist Association, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

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Adjacent Parishes

Market Square CAMBORNE CORNWALL — Old Postcards of Camborne

Basset Road 1907 CAMBORNE CORNWALL — Old Postcards of Camborne

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CAMBORNE, a town, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Redruth district, Cornwall. The town stands adjacent to the West Cornwall railway, in the centre of a rich mining tract, 14¼ miles WSW of Truro. It is a thriving place, a scene of considerable traffic, and a seat of petty sessions; and has a head post office, a r. station with telegraph, a banking office, a hotel, a market house of 1866, a church, four dissenting chapels, and charities £70.

The church is perpendicular English, in granite, large, but very low; was restored in 1862; contains a carved wooden pulpit, a new granite font, and monuments of the family of Pendarves; and has, on the outside, an ancient inscribed stone, placed in its present position by the late Lord de Dunstanville, and believed to have been originally an altar cover. A weekly market is held on Saturday; and fairs on 7 March, Whit-Tuesday, 29 June, and 11 Nov. Pop., 7,208. Houses, 1,415.

The parish includes also the villages of Tucking-mill, Penponds, Berippa, Trewithan, and others. Acres, 6,744. Real property, £39,102; of which £26,315 are in mines. Pop., 14,056. Houses, 2,737.

Pendarves, about a mile S of the town, the seat of the late E.W.W. Pendarves, Esq., is a modern granite edifice; contains some good pictures and a rich mineral cabinet; and stands in a fine park, formed entirely out of a moor. Tehidy, the seat of J. F. Basset, Esq., has a good collection of pictures, and stands in a park of upwards of 700 acres. Carnbrea, a rocky eminence 740 feet high, is regarded by Borlase as having been the chief seat of the Druids in the west of England; and Carwinnen, a wild moorish hill confronting Pendarves, has at its foot a cromlech, called the Pendarves Quoit.

Extensive mines are worked, and employ most of the inhabitants. Dolcoath mine, about 3 miles W of Carnbrea, has been sunk to the depth of 1,080 feet, and extends under ground fully a mile.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £600. Patron, J. F. Basset, Esq. The vicarages of Tucking-mill, Penponds, and Treslothan are separate charges. A modern chapel, in the Norman style, is at Tucking-mill; and a handsome one, built in 1842, is on an eminence in Pendarves park. An ancient chapel stood on the latter’s site; another stood at Trewin, adjacent to a medicinal well; and four or five more stood in other places. The subdistrict is conterminate with the parish.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Bankrupts

People declared bankrupt and the date of bankruptcy.

Knapp Francis, Camborne, Cornwall. victualler, Oct. 29, 1830.

Terrill William, Cambourne, Cornwall, tinman, April 6, 1827.

Free Online Parish Registers & Records

Births and baptisms, 1828-1837 – Wesleyan Church (Camborne, Cornwall) (Film 590671 Item 4 Index)

Births and baptisms, 1828-1837 – Wesleyan Church (Camborne, Cornwall) (Film 1482356 Item 3 Index)

Bishop’s transcripts Camborne, 1684-1772 – Church of England. Parish Church of Camborne (Cornwall)

England, Cornwall, Camborne, parish registers, 1911-1937 – Church of England. Parish Church of Camborne (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office (Images)

Parish registers for Camborne, 1837-1946 – Church of England. Parish Church of Camborne (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office (Images)

The register of marriages, baptisms & burials of the parish of Camborne, co. Cornwall, A.D. 1538 to 1837 – Tapley-Soper, H. (Harry); Devon and Cornwall Record Society (Images)

Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010 – Cornwall parish registers containing baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials. Records are restricted for privacy reasons according to the following dates: baptisms to 1910, marriages to 1935, and burials to present. Date ranges of available records may vary by locality and availability. This collection is being published as images become available currently over 200,000 images available.

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