Sennen Cornwall Family History Guide

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Sennen is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cornwall, created in 1850 from St Buryan Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Lands End, Treve, Trevescan, and Escalls.

Alternative names: St Sennen

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1700
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1699

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Bible Christian Methodist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Sennen Parish Registers

Sennen Marriages 1699 to 1812

The Sennen Marriages 1699 to 1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

Sennen Marriages 1699 to 1812 Cornwall Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 3. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, and Thomas Taylor. Published London 1903. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co.

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Sennen Marriages 1699 to 1812 Cornwall Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 3. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, and Thomas Taylor. Published London 1903. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co.

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SENNEN, a village and a parish in Penzance district, Cornwall. The village stands 387 feet above sea-level, 1 mile E of Lands-End, and 9 S W of Penzance r. station; and has an inn, called the First and Last inn in England. The parish includes Lands-End and the light-house off it; and comprises 2,230 acres of land, and 70 of water. Post-town, Penzance. Real property, £2,887. Pop., 613. Houses, 123. The property is divided among a few. Salt-works were here at Domesday, but have been discontinued. Small harbours are at S. cove and Whitsand bay; and fishing is largely carried on. Roman coins were found in 1807. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £230. Patron, the Prince of.wales. The church is ancient but good. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Bible Christians, and a national school.

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

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: Penzance
  • Probate Court: Pre-1848 – Court of the Royal Peculiar of St Buryan, Post-1847 – Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1848 – None, Post-1847 – Penwith
  • Poor Law Union: Penzance
  • Hundred: Penwith
  • Province: Canterbury