Jacobstow Cornwall Family History Guide

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Jacobstow is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.

Alternative names: Jewstow, Stow St James

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1612

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

JACOBSTOW, popularly JEWSTOW, a parish, with a village, in Stratton district, Cornwall; 3 miles SE of Widemouth bay, 7½ S by W of Stratton, and 11½ NW of Launceston r. station. Post town, Week-St. Mary, under Stratton. Acres, 4,554. Real property, £2,402. Pop., 462. Houses, 97. The property is subdivided. Two barrows are at Headon. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £243. Patron, the Earl of St. Germains. The church is ancient, has a granite tower, and was repaired in 1831. There are chapels for Primitive Methodists, Bryanites, and Thornites, and a national school. Digory Wheare, author of a Life of Camden and other works, was a native.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

The following records are available free online.

Church Records

Births and baptisms, 1821-1824 Author: Bible Christian Church (Jacobstow, England)

Bishop’s transcripts for Jacobstow, 1674-1804 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Jacobstow (Cornwall)

England, Cornwall, Jacobstow, bishop’s transcripts, 1596-1836 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Jacobstow (Cornwall); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

England, Cornwall, Jacobstow, parish registers, 1837-1907 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Jacobstow (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office

Parish chest materials, 1759-1861 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Jacobstow (Cornwall)

Parish registers for Jacobstow, 1653-1999 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Jacobstow (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office

Computer printout of Jacobstow, Corn., Eng

Poorhouses & Poor Law

Poor law records, 1824-1836 Author: Jacobstow (Cornwall)

Poor law records, 1828-1878 Author: Jacobstow (Cornwall)

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Cornwall
  • Civil Registration District: Stratton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Trigg Major
  • Poor Law Union: Stratton
  • Hundred: Stratton
  • Province: Canterbury