Stratton

The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 988 entries.

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1901) is held in the Cornwall Record Office. The Cornwall Family History Society offers a census search service for its members.
Specific census information for this parish is available as follows:

• 1841.
  • The 1841 Census of Stratton (HO107/151) Enumeration Districts 1, 2 [including schools] and 3, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • The 1841 Census of Stratton is also available in hardcopy form from the Cornwall Family History Society.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of Stratton (HO107/1897), Enumeration Districts 2a and 2c, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have compiled separate surname indexes of the 1851 Census for each Cornish registration district; Stratton is listed in Volume 5. The booklets are available in Cornwall at the Cornwall Centre, (formerly known as the Cornish Studies Library), and is also available in the Cornwall FHS Library.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Stratton (RG9/1513), Enumeration District 2, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Stratton is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • (RG10/2215). Enumeration District 2.
  • (RG10/2216). Enumeration District 4 [including Workhouse].
• 1881. he 1881 Census of Stratton (RG11/2270), Enumeration Districts 2 [including Hospitals and Workhouses] and 3, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Stratton (RG12/1797) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 2 [including Workhouse] and 3.
  • Enumeration District 4 [Merchant Shipping].

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SS2306 and was dedicated to St Andrew. However, Bishop Lacy's register (1430) gives St Christina. The church is an ancient building of stone in the early English and perpendicular styles; it comprises a chancel, nave, and north and south aisles. The south arcade has six four-centred arches supported on granite pillars; the north has six irregular arches, chiefly supported on polyphant pillars, one only being of granite. The chief entrances are a south porch and a priest's door. The tower has three stages and is finished with battlements and stately pinnacles; it is buttressed on the square with angular buttresses. There are eight bells, all cast in 1778. The church was restored in 1878. The registers date from 1687 and contains an entry for Elizabeth Cornish who was buried on 10th March 1691, aged 113 years!
• Non-Conformist. There were chapels for the Wesleyan Methodists, opened in 1837, and another for the Wesleyan Methodist Free Church, built in 1838, within the parish. The Bible Christians had a chapel at Brush which was built in 1869.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Stratton are: C073481, C042981. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1611 - 1860; it is NOT believed to be fully included in the LDS Church's International Genealogical Index (IGI).
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1687 - 1980, Burials 1687 - 1978, Marriages 1687 - 1989, Boyd's Marriage Index 1611 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1800 - 1812, BTs 1611 - 1673.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line transcripts of:
  • Pre 1813 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials
• Baptisms.
  • Bishop's Transcripts (BTs) of baptisms 1679 to 1805, and parish transcripts 1687 to 1901, in this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1686 to 1840 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Marriages.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Marriages in the Parish 1611 to 1837, which is available in CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Phillimore's marriages 1687 to 1812, Bishop's transcripts (BTs) 1679 to 1805, and transcripts of marriages 1759 to 1911, in this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Burials.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Burials in the Parish 1813 to 1837, which is available in CD or Book formats.
  • Bishop's Transcripts (BTs) of burials 1679 to 1805, and parish transcripts 1687 to 1901, in this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

The parish of Stratton is in the Stratton Registration District, and has been since 1st July 1837; there were sub-districts at Kilkhampton, Stratton and Week St Mary but these have now been abolished. Parishes within the district are: Jacobstow, Kilkhampton, Launcells, Marhamchurch, Morwenstow, Poughill, Poundstock, St. Gennys, Stratton, Stratton and Bude, Week St. Mary, Whitstone. The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: The Parkhouse Centre, Ergue Gaberic Way, Bude, EX23 8LF. Tel: 01288 353209.

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OPC Assistance. The On-line Parish Clerk (OPC) scheme operates a service to help family historians; the OPC page for this parish is available on-line, from where the OPC can be contacted by email.

The Domesday Settlements of Cornwall, a study undertaken by the Cornwall Branch of the Historical Association, has identified and located settlements listed in the Exeter and Exchequer Domesday Survey of AD 1086. The following places have been identified in Stratton ecclesiastical parish:

• Stratton (Stratona, Stratone), Grid Reference 231064.

• Map of the Stratton Registration District in which the parish lies.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SS231065 (Lat/Lon: 50.831312, -4.512895), Stratton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

In 1547, some 153 persons died in the town of the plague. In 1729, of 49 people buried, 42 of them died of the smallpox.

Stratton parish was part of the Stratton Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

Bude Haven was separated from part of this parish in 1836. However, the two parishes came again together as 'Bude-Stratton' civil parish.

Bude/Stratton & District Old Cornwall Society News Page is on-line.

The parish comprised 2653 acres of land.