St Winnow

The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions on-line for:

• The Parish Church - 838 entries.
• St Nectan Chapel - 633 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 St Winnow (HO107/153), Enumeration Districts 1 to 3, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851. The 1851 Census of St Winnow (HO107/1904), Enumeration Districts 1a, 1b and 1c, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of St Winnow (RG9/1534), Enumeration Districts 11b, 12c, and 13b, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of St Winnow (RG10/2247), Enumeration District 11 to 13, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of St Winnow (RG11/2289), Enumeration Districts 11 to 13, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of St Winnow (RG12/1814), Enumeration Districts 11 to 13, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. There are two Anglican churches in St Winnow:
  • Parish Church. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX1157 and was dedicated to St Winnocus. It comprises a chancel, nave, south aisle, and north transept. The arcade consists of six four-centred arches supported on monolith granite pillars with capitals of porcelain stone. There are a south porch and a priest's door. The tower has three stages, is buttressed on the square, and finished with battlements and pinnacles. The belfry contained five bells.
    Like so many other churches in Cornwall, this church was probably founded by a Celtic religious community round about the 7th century (St Winnow or Winnoc was an evangelist, perhaps Welsh, who also founded churches in Wales, Brittany and northern France, and died in 717); about 500 years later a larger, stone building probably replaced the old cob-and-thatch one; further enlargements and the tower were added in the l5th century; and a thorough restoration was carried out in Victorian times. Luckily, the restoration was more sensitive than that suffered by many other churches, and one of the most attractive features inside is the old woodwork. The wagon roofs, except in the chancel, are old, and so are the pulpit and parts of the beautiful screen which dominates the interior. The early bench-ends (l5th-l7th centuries) are particularly fine.
    About two miles north-east of the church stands a chapel of ease dedicated to St Nectan (called locally St Nighton's chapel). It comprises a chancel, nave, and north and south aisles. The orginal structure consisted of what is now the south aisle only. The entrances are a south porch and a vestry door. At the south-west corner of the chapel stands one substantial buttressed stage of the tower on which there is a wooden bell-cote. The upper stages were destroyed in the Civil War when the bells were melted down for use as armaments. The chapel is surrounded by a burial ground, and marriages and baptisms are celebrated it in.
  • St Nectan. St Nightons (Nectan's) chapel of ease is 2 1/2 miles north-east from the Parish church. It is an ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles, and at the south-west corner is one stage of an old and substantial butteresed tower with a bell cot, containing one bell. The upper stages were destroyed during the Civil war in 1644, and the six bells are said to have been melted down to furnish war material. One pinnacle was removed years ago to Boconnoc, and another serves as a gate post on the steps to the entrance to the churchyard. There are 250 sittings.
    Details about the plans of this church are available on-line.
• Non-Conformist. At Bofarnel, near Resprin, was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. There was also a Primitive Methodist chapel at Bridgend.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for St Winnow are: P002211, St Winnow with St Nighton C053491. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1612 - 1837; it is NOT believed to be fully included in the LDS Church's International Genealogical Index (IGI).
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1622 - 1970, Burials 1622 - 1920, Marriages 1622 - 1947, Boyd's Marriage Index 1612 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1800 - 1812, BTs 1612 - 1639.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line transcripts of:
  • Pre 1813 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1892 to 1911, for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1708 to 1850 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Marriages.
  • Phillimore marriages 1622 to 1812, and parish marriages 1837 to 1912, for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Marriages in the Parish 1622 to 1837, which is available in CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Phillimore's Marriages at St Winnow - 1622 to 1812 are available on-line from UK Genealogy Archives.
• Burials.
  • Burials 1684 to 1782, and 1868 to 1912, for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Burials in the Parish 1813 to 1837, which is available in CD and Book formats.

The parish of St Winnow was originally in Bodmin Registration District; it is now in the Liskeard Registration District. There were sub-districts are Bodmin, Egloshayle, Lanlivery and St Mabyn but these have now been abolished. Parishes within the BOdmin district were: Blisland, Bodmin, Bodmin Borough, Cardinham, Egloshayle, Endellion, Helland, Lanhydrock, Lanviet, Lanlivery, Lostwithiel, Luxulion, St. Kew, St. Mabyn, St. Minver Highlands, St. Minver Lowlands, St. Tudy, St. Winnow, Temple, Wadebridge, Warleggon, Withiel.

The Superintendant Registrar of Liskeard can be contacted at: Graylands, Dean Street, Liskeard, PL14 4AH. Tel: 01579 343442.

• Photographs of St Winnow are available on-line.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from St Winnow to another place.

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.

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 St Winnow ecclesiastical parish:

• Dawna (Douenoi, Dovenot), Grid Reference 141615.
• Polscoe (Poleschat, Polscat), Grid Reference 109604.
• St Winnow (San Winnuc, Sanwinvec), Grid Reference 115570.

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SX116570 (Lat/Lon: 50.382883, -4.651337), St Winnow 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.

Apprenticeship Indentures for St Winnow (1761 - 1820) can be found in the Cornwall Record Office.

• St Winnow parish was part of the Bodmin Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.
• Overseers' Accounts (1758 to 1837) are available in the Cornwall Record Office.

The parish comprises 5038 acres of land.