Cornelly, Cornwall
Historical Description
Cornelly, a parish in Cornwall, 1½ mile WNW of Tregony, and 2½ miles SSW of Grampound Road station on the G.W.R. Post town, Tregony, under Grampound; telegraph office, Grampound Road. Acreage, 1368; population. 84. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; value, £3y. Patron, the Vicar of Probus. The church is good.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cornwall | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Cornelly St. Cornelius | |
Hundred | Powder | |
Poor Law union | Truro |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Marriages at Cornelly 1679 - 1812 from Phillimore Parish Registers - Marriages series.
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Cornelly 1679-1812, Cornwall is available to browse online.
Churches
Church of England
St Cornelly or St Cornelius (parish church)
The church of St. Cornelius is a building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, south porch and a low embattled western tower, containing one bell: the chancel was rebuilt in October, 1886, and the remainder of the church, including the tower, was thoroughly restored in 1900, at a cost of over £700.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Cornelly from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cornelly (St. Cornelius))
Maps
Online maps of Cornelly are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cornwall papers online:
- Royal Cornwall Gazette
- Cornishman
- West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser
- Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser
Visitations Heraldic
We have a copy of The Visitations of Cornwall, by Lieut.-Col. J.L. Vivian online.