Pelynt Cornwall Family History Guide

Pelynt is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.

Other places in the parish include: Trelawne.

Alternative names: Plynt, Pelint

Parish church: St. Nunn

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1678
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1610

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

PELYNT, or Plynt, a village and a parish in Liskeard district, Cornwall. The village stands 4 miles WNW of Looe, and 9¾ SSW of Liskeard r. station; and has a post-office under Liskeard, and fairs on the first Tuesday of Feb. and 24 June. The parish comprises 4,683 acres. Real property, £4,055. Pop., 729. Houses, 142. The property is divided among a few. The manor was known, at Domesday, as Plewent; belonged then to the Earl of Mortaigne; and was recently sold in lots. Trelawney House belongs to the Trelawney family; was the birthplace of Sir Jonathan Trelawney, one of the seven bishops committed to the Tower by James II.; and contains a noble hall and many valuable pictures. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £240. Patron, J. W. Buller, Esq. The church contains the monuments, effigies, and armour of the Achyms, the Bullers, and the Trelawneys. A chapel is at Trelawney House; and a small convent, with a chapel, is about a mile from it. Charities, £6.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

PELYNT (St. Nunn), a parish, in the union of Liskeard, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from West Looe; containing 834 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £17. 18. 6½.; patron and impropriator, J. W. Buller, Esq. The great tithes have been commuted for £400, and those of the vicar for £235: there are 50 acres of glebe. The church contains a curious monument to the memory of Francis Buller, who died in 1615. At Trelawny, in the parish, yet remains a portion of a castellated mansion erected by Lord Bonville in the fifteenth century.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848