St Columb Minor Cornwall Family History Guide

St Columb Minor is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall. Newquay is a chapelry of St Columb Minor.

Other places in the parish include: Trencreek.

Alternative names: St Minor Columb

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1559
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1676

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Bible Christian Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Newlyn East
• Mawgan in Pyder
• Newquay
• Colan
• St Columb Major
• Crantock

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COLUMB-MINOR (St.), a parish in St. Columb district, Cornwall; on the coast, 5 miles W by S of St. Columb-Major, and 11 NNW of Grampound Road r. station. It has a fair on 9 June; and its post town is Newquay, under St. Columb, Cornwall. Acres, 5,897; of which 335 are water. Real property, £6,796. Pop., 2,067. Houses, 446. The property is much subdivided. The rocks include good shelly sandstone. A blow-hole, with a high jet of water, in certain states of the tide, is at the small harbour of Lower-St. Columb-Porth. A priory was founded at Rialton, near the church, about the end of the 15th century, by Thomas Vyvyan; and some interesting remains of it were lately extant, but are now much mutilated. Rialton gave title to the statesman, Sidney Godolphin. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £117. Patron, Lord Churston. The church is large and good; and has an old rood-loft.

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

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cornwall, St. Columb-Minor – Cemeteries ( 2 )
An Index of burial registers between 1813-1837 for the parish of St. Columb Minor
Author: Cornwall Family History Society (England)

Monumental inscriptions, St. Columb-Minor, Cornwall, England : 1640-1812

England, Cornwall, St. Columb-Minor – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for St. Columb-Minor, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cornwall, St. Columb-Minor – Church history ( 1 )
A Brief history : St. Columb Minor parish church

England, Cornwall, St. Columb-Minor – Church records ( 15 )
Bishop’s transcripts St. Columb-Minor, 1676-1772
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Columb-Minor (Cornwall)

Bishops transcripts for the parish of St. Columb Minor, Cornwall : baptisms, with small number of burials for the years 1715 – 1727 with index
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Columb-Minor (Cornwall)

Church records for Church Street Wesley Methodist Church, St. Columb-Minor, 1960-1998
Author: Church Street Chapel (St. Columb-Minor, Cornwall : Wesleyan Methodist)

Church records for St. Columb and Padstow Methodist Circuit, 1902-1951
Author: Methodist Church. St. Columb and Padstow Circuit (Cornwall)

Church records for St. Columb Bible Christian Circuit, 1838-1916
Author: Bible Christian Church. St. Columb Circuit (Cornwall)

Church records for St. Columb United Methodist Circuit, 1875-1935
Author: United Methodist Church. St. Columb Circuit (Cornwall)

England, Cornwall, St. Columb Minor, bishop’s transcripts, 1596-1840
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Columb-Minor (Cornwall); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

England, Cornwall, St. Columb Minor, Parish registers, 1903-1906
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Columb-Minor (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office

Extracts from parish registers, Cornwall
Author: Millett, George Bown

Marriages at St. Columb-Minor, 1560-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Columb-Minor (Cornwall)

Parish chest materials, 1701-1763
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Columb-Minor (Cornwall)

Parish registers for St. Columb-Minor, 1560-1963
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Columb-Minor (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office

Parish registers for St. Michael’s, Newquay, 1882-1995
Author: Church of England. St. Michael’s Church (Newquay, Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office

Transcripts of parish registers and Bishop’s transcripts, 1597-1675
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Columb-Minor (Cornwall)

Transcripts of the registers of the parish of St. Columb-Minor : baptisms and burials, 1560-1783
Author: Douch, H. L.; Church of England. Parish Church of St. Columb-Minor (Cornwall)

England, Cornwall, St. Columb-Minor – Church records – Indexes ( 5 )
Parish of St. Columb Minor
Author: Ivall, Dennis Endean; Thompson, Gillian; Ivall, Dennis Endean, Mrs.

Parish register printouts of St. Columb-Minor, Cornwall, England ; christenings, 1560-1783
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of St. Columb-Minor, Cornwall, England ; christenings, 1716-1726
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of St. Columb-Minor, Cornwall, England, christenings, 1560-1875

Parish register printouts of St. Columb-Minor, Cornwall, England, christenings, 1716-1726
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Cornwall, St. Columb-Minor – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1729-1779
Author: St. Columb-Minor (Cornwall)

England, Cornwall, St. Columb-Minor – Schools ( 2 )
Admission registers, 1877-1911
Author: Fairpark St. Columb-Minor School (Cornwall)

Admission registers, 1911-1935
Author: St. Columb-Minor Council School (Cornwall)

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

• County: Cornwall
• Civil Registration District: St Columb
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
• Diocese: Exeter
• Rural Deanery: Pydar
• Poor Law Union: St Columb Major
• Hundred: Pyder
• Province: Canterbury