Pillaton Cornwall Family History Guide
Pillaton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1557
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1611
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Botus Fleming
- St Stephens by Saltash
- St Mellion
- Bere Ferrers with Bere Alston
- Quethiock
- Landulph
- St Dominic
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
PILLATON, a parish in St. Germans district, Cornwall; on the river Lynher, 4½ miles NNE of St. Germans r. station. It has a fair on Whit-Tuesday; and its post town is Callington, Cornwall Acres, 2,478; of which 20 are water. Real property, £2,026. Pop., 349. Houses, 72. The property is divided among a few. The manor was known, at Domesday, as Pileton; was held by the Earl of Mortaigne; and passed to the Inkpens, the Dillingtons, the Corytons, and others. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £203. Patron, E. Collins, Esq. The church is modern, and has a tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Pillaton Marriages 1557 to 1812
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Cornwall
England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010
Cornwall Parish Register Index
Cornwall Burials A-Z index of surnames of people buried in Cornwall
Cornwall Historical Directories
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Cornwall
- Civil Registration District: St Germans
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: East
- Poor Law Union: St Germans
- Hundred: East (Cornwall)
- Province: Canterbury