Egloshayle Cornwall Family History Guide

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Egloshayle is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall. 

Other places in the parish include: Burlorne, Burlawn, Washaway, and Wadebridge. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1600
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

Adjacent Parishes

Egloshayle Parish Registers

Egloshayle Marriages 1600 to 1812

The Egloshayle Marriages 1600 to 1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research.

Egloshayle Marriages 1600 to 1812 Cornwall Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 6. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, Thomas Taylor and Mrs. J. H. Glencross. Published London 1903.

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Egloshayle Marriages 1600 to 1812 Cornwall Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 6. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, Thomas Taylor and Mrs. J. H. Glencross. Published London 1903.

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Parish History

Egloshayle

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EGLOSHAYLE, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Bodmin district, Cornwall. The village stands on the river Camel, ¾ of a mile SE of Wadebridge, and 9 NW of Bodmin-Road r. station; and is a seat of petty sessions. The parish comprises 5,618 acres of land, and 130 of water. Post town, Wadebridge, Cornwall. Real property, £6,616. Pop., 1,479. Houses, 303. The property is divided among a few.

Pencarron has remains of a castle and an ancient camp, and belongs to the Rev. Sir Paul W. Molesworth, Bart. Park belonged to the Peverells. Ancient barrows occur at Kerry Rounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, 327. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church has a tower and a curious stone pulpit; and is good. There are chapels for Wesleyans and United Free Methodists. Charities, £12.

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

Wadebridge

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WADEBRIDGE, a small sea-port town in Egloshayle and St. Breock parishes, Cornwall; on the river Camel, 6 miles NW by W of Bodmin. It is connected by a tram railway with Bodmin; and it has a head post-office designated Wadebridge, Cornwall, a banking office, two chief inns, a seventeen-arched bridge, a small dock, three dissenting chapels, a weekly market on Friday, cattle-markets eight times a year, and four annual fairs. Pop., 777.

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

Bankrupts

People who were declared bankrupt and the date of bankruptcy.

Corkhill John Avery, Wadebridge, Cornwall, money scrivener, Nov. 10, 1829.

Evans Samuel James, Wadebridge, Cornwall, tallow chandler, March 13, 1829.

Marriages Out of Parish

Johannes Toker, of S. Mabyn Gen., & Susanna Matthew, of Egloshayle Gen. 12 Apr. 1684 married at St Breward

Parish Records

Cornwall

England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

Cornwall Parish Register Index

FreeREG

Cornwall Burials A-Z index of surnames of people buried in Cornwall

Administration

  • County: Cornwall
  • Civil Registration District: Bodmin
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiars of the Court of the Bishop of Exeter (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1848 – None, Post-1847 – Trigg Minor
  • Poor Law Union: Bodmin
  • Hundred: Trigg
  • Province: Canterbury