St Cleer Cornwall Family History Guide

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

Other places in the parish include: Tremar.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1675
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

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Adjacent Parishes

St Cleer Parish Registers

St Cleer Marriages 1678 to 1812

The St Cleer Marriages 1678 to 1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

St Cleer Marriages 1678 to 1812 Cornwall Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 8. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, Thomas Taylor and Mrs. J. H. Glencross. Published London 1905. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co.

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CLEER (St.), a parish in Liskeard district, Cornwall; on the moors, near the Cornwall railway, 2½ miles N by W of Liskeard. It has a post office under Liskeard. Acres, 11,263. Real property, £26,107; of which £17,446 are in mines. Pop., 3,931. Houses, 717. The property is subdivided.

Granite, hornblende, felspar, copper ore, lead ore, soapstone, asbestos, and other minerals are found. Copper and lead are extensively mined; and upwards of 1,000 persons are employed in one of the mines. St. Cleer Down, a stony eminence 753 feet high, and Sharpitor, or Sharp Point Tor, a beautiful cone, about 1,200 feet high, command extensive views.

St. Cleer’s well was anciently used as a ducking pool for insane persons; is enclosed by the ivy-clad ruin of a chapel; and adjoins an ancient cross, about 9 feet high. Two inscribed Saxon monuments, called the Half Stone and the Other Half Stone, are about ¾ of a mile WNW of the church; and were found, by a recent investigation, to surmount a subterranean sepulchral chamber. The Cheesewring, which we have separately noticed, three large Druidical circles, called the Hurlers, and a cromlech, called the Trevethy Stone, or the Grave-house, are within the parish.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £245. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English, with a walled-up Norman doorway; and has a tower 97 feet high.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CLEER, ST., a parish, in the union of Liskeard, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 2½ miles (N. by W.) from Liskeard; containing 1412 inhabitants. It comprises 7370 acres, of which 2673 are uninclosed common and coppice, with some oak woods; the soil in general is light, with the exception of some boggy peat soil: there is a great quantity of granite, locally termed moor-stone, and of porphyry; and a copper-mine has been opened. The river Fowey runs through the parish, and several rivulets empty themselves near Looe.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £19. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown; impropriator, E. P. Bastard, Esq.: the great tithes have been commuted for £330, and the vicarial for £330; the impropriate glebe contains 2 acres. The church is a handsome and spacious structure, in the early English style. There are a few chalybeate springs; also an ancient Druidical monument, called the Hurlers, consisting of rude upright stones arranged in three circles, their centres in a right line, and the middle circle the largest.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Marriages Out of Parish

Details	Place of Marriage
John Bray, of St. Cleere, & Winnefry Chepman – Apr. 1673	St Breward
Wilham Hambly, of St. Cleer, & Deborah Davey 10 Aug. 1802	Lanteglos by Camelford
William Hambly, of St. Cleer, & Mary Davey 21 Nov. 1807	Lanteglos by Camelford