St Buryan Cornwall Family History Guide

|
Updated on
Links marked with a * mean that we may earn a small commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you. It all helps to keep the site online and free for everyone.

St Buryan is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.

Other places in the parish include: Crows-an-Wra, Crowsanwray, and Borah.

Alternative names: Buryan, St Burian

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1691

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

St Buryan Parish Registers

St Buryan Marriages 1654 to 1812

The St Buryan Marriages 1654 to 1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

St Buryan Marriages 1654 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.

Cornwall parish registers Marriages v3 8

St Buryan Marriages 1654 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.

Free to Read Online or Download

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BURYAN (St.), a parish and a subdistrict in Penzance district, Cornwall. The parish lies 4¾ miles E by N of Lands-End, and 4¾ SW of Penzance r. station; and has a post office under Penzance. Acres, 6,964. Real property, £8,359. Pop., 1,428. Houses, 290. The property is divided among a few. The surface consists largely of black granite hills.

A small town, of ancient note, was here; but is now represented by only a few cottages. An oratory was founded at it, at an early period, by St. Buriena, a holy woman from Ireland. A secular college also was founded here in 909, by Athelstane; changed afterwards into an exempt deanery; and destroyed, in the time of the Commonwealth, by Shrubshall, governor of Pendennis Castle. A number of Druidical remains, including the Merry Maidens, the Boscawen-Un, and the Rosmodrevy circles, occur among the hills.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; and till 1864 was united with Levan and Sennen. Value, £570. Patron, the Crown. The church stands on a wild open eminence, 415 feet high; has a lofty tower, commanding a view to the Scilly Islands; is an ancient edifice, greatly altered by modern renovations; and contains a fine carved screen, and a curious coffin shaped monument with a Norman-French inscription. An ancient chapel, called the Sanctuary, stands about a mile to the SE. Attorney-general Noy, of the time of Charles I., was a native. The subdistrict contains three parishes. Acres, 11,592. Pop. 2,488. Houses, 502.

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