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St Keyne

The parish of St Keyne, (Cornish: Sen Keyna), (anciently called Lametton), is situated in the Deanery and Hundred of West. It is bounded on the north and east by Liskeard, and on the south and west by Duloe. According to the Welsh version of the legend St Keyne was the daughter of King Broccan. The tiny parish lies between the parishes of Liskeard and Duloe. In the 16th century it consisted of one estate, Lametton, but in 1911 it was divided into separate lots and sold to individual buyers. The little village of St Keyne has a railway station on the branch line to Looe. In Victorian times the holy well had the reputation of conferring supremacy to the marriage partner who first tasted it.

The Churchtown is the only village in the parish.

Archives

The Liskeard and District Museum have a database of parish records for Liskeard and St Keyne. They can be contacted by e-mail; the address is: museum@liskeard.gov.uk.

Cemeteries

The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 400 entries.

Census

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. The Cornwall Family History Society have also published on-line census detail by surname on the FamilyHistoryonLine site.

Specific census information for this parish is available as follows:

• 1841. The 1841 Census of St Keyne (HO107/153), Enumeration District 18, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of St Keyne (HO107/1902), Enumeration District 6, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • Ray Woodbine has compiled the 1851 Census for many Cornish parishes. Entries for St Keyne are contained in Volume 2-3. This is available in the Library of the Cornwall Family History Society from which it can be purchased.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of St Keyne (RG9/1530), Enumeration District 18, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871.
  • The 1871 Census of St Keyne is available from the Cornwall Family History Society.
  • A transcription of the 1871 Census of Cornwall is available on-line.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of St Keyne (RG11/2286), Enumeration District 18, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of St Keyne (RG12/1811), Enumeration District 18, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

Church History

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX2460. The church is dedicated to St Keyne the Virgin; it comprises a chancel, nave and north aisle. The chancel was rebuilt in 1868. The arcade has three obtuse arches supported on low monolith pillars; the material is granite. There is a south porch, an unused north door, and a priest's door. The tower is of three stages, and is finished with battlements and low crocketed pinnacles.
  Details about the plans of the modern church are available on-line.
• Non-Conformists. There was a Free Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the Churchtown.

Church Records

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for St Keyne are: C053201, E0553201, M053201. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage this parish is 1539 - 1837.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1721 - 1939, Burials 1721 - 1978, Marriages 1722 - 1949, Boyd's Marriage Index 1608 - 1673, BTs 1608 - 1673.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of:
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials.
• Cornwall Legacy have published on CD, records of the Looe Bible Christian Circuit. These comprise baptisms 1848 to 1900. The areas cover Looe, St Keyne, St Pinnock, Lansallos, Talland St Veep, Duloe, Liskeard, Lanreath, Boconnoc, Pelynt, St Martins, and Polperro.

Civil Registration

The parish of St Keyne has always been in the Liskeard Registration District. There were sub-districts at Callington, Lerrin, Liskeard and Looe, but these closed in the 1930s. Parishes within the district are: Boconnoc, Broadoak, Callington, Calstock (1837-60), Duloe, East Looe, Lanreath, Lansallos, Lanteglos, Linkinhorne, Liskeard, Liskeard Borough, Menheniot, Morval, Pelynt, St. Cleer, St. Dominick, St. Ive, St. Keyne, St. Martin's, St. Neot, St. Pinnock, St. Veep, Southill, Talland and West Looe. The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: Graylands, Dean Street, Liskeard, PL14 4AH. Tel: 01579 343442.

Description & Travel

• ePodunk's Cornwall page - providing general, plus some historical and genealogical information, about Cornwall and its parishes, together with links (mainly relating to general sites and services, rather than ones that are specific to Cornwall or particular parishes).
• Photographs of St Keyne are available on-line.

Genealogy

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.

Historical Geography

• Lametton (Lantmatin), Grid Reference 245610.

Maps

• Map of the Liskeard Registration District in which the parish lies.
• An old map of the parish of St Keyne in the 19th century is also available.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

St Keyne parish was part of the Liskeard Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

Population

Statistics

The parish comprised 942 acres of land.

Societies

The St Keyne Local History Group was formed when the new Village Hall was opened in August 1998 with the prime objective of collecting together and archiving all the information that could be found from as many sources as possible about the history of the properties, inhabitants and events of the village. Much of this information is now included in a book entitled The People of St.Keyne and provides a fascinating insight to the history of the village.

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