Linkinhorne Parish History Site

Linkinhorne Parish

(in South East Cornwall)

History Site

This site is intended to compliment the Linkinhorne Parish site which is all about the parish at the present time and has more photographs. This sister site is specifically for family and local historians with a deeper interest in the parish and and its people. Documents are being transcribed as and when time allows and will be regularly added to these pages. Contributions are always welcome. Please visit again.

The Parish	For more photographs and information about the parish as it is today visit the Linkinhorne Parish Council site.
Photo Gallery	54 photographs of the parish, its villages, mines and moorlands.
Baptisms 1700-1850	Transcriptions of the Linkinhorne church registers
Marriages 1575-1850	Transcriptions of the Linkinhorne church registers
Burials 1725 - 1838		Transcription of the Linkinhorne church registers Burials now back to 1725.
Methodist Registers & Chapels	Details of the Methodist Circuits and how to access records. Chapels in the parish and the registers available.
Methodist Baptisms	Transcriptions of registers from 1837 to 1850
Burial Monuments at St Melor's	Photographs and details of inscriptions on headstones at St Melor's, Linkinhorne
Burial Monuments at St Paul's	Photographs and details of inscriptions for headstones at St Paul's Church, Upton Cross.
Census	All census from 1841 to 1891 are now on-line.
Street & Postal Directories	These directories list all the tradesmen and farmers in the parish. The following years have been transcribed:- 1930, 1910, 1893, 1873, 1862, 1856.
1892 Sanitary Report	Gives an interesting indication of the housing conditions of the period
1873 Land Owners	Lists all the people resident in the parish who owned land
Churchwardens Accounts	Extracts from the Churchwardens Accounts 1717 & 1754 so far.
Land Tax Records	Land tax assessment for 1805, 1736 & 1710 various other lists of landowners & tenants.
Manor Rolls & Rentals	Manor Rentals of 1701 for Rillaton Manor recently added
1662/4 Hearth Tax	Lists all the persons in the parish who had at least one hearth and had to pay tax.
1660 Poll Tax	Complete list of adults and their locations
1641 Protestation Returns	A list of every male in the parish who took this declaration in 1641, (no known dissenters).
1544 Subsidies	Cornish Subsidies in the reign of Henry VIII, lists all men in the parish with land or goods of value
Sources of Information	A list of all the sources of information as I discover them, any contributions welcomed!
Maps	The 1888 ordinance survey maps of the parish can be seen at the old-maps site, just enter 'Linkinhorne' under place search.
	For modern location maps visit:- www.multimap.com

For other parishes	For St Ive and South Hill return to the Lynher Parishes page, for details of all the other Cornish Parishes go to the Genuki page. Also visit the OPC pages for a list of voluntary helpers for Cornish parishes.
LOOK-UPS

I am Lynda Mudle-Small, the author of this page and the site, I am also the Online Parish Clerk for the parish. I am fortunate enough to live immediately adjacent to the parish of Linkinhorne (just a few yards the 'wrong' side of the Lynher) and have now been here for 25 years.

I have the following items that I cannot put up on the site but I am very willing to do look ups for you, all that is needed is a please and a thank you!

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Overseers of the Poor	I have a complete list of all Overseers of the Poor from 1637 to 1836, to be transcribed
1569 Muster Rolls	A list of able bodied men and the arms they could muster.
1522 Military Survey	One of the very first surveys to list the value of each persons goods
Deaths 1860, 1861	I have details of these for the parish
The Parish in 1727	I have a copy of this book which gives a detailed survey of the parish and all the landowners and tenants. It was written in 1727 and there are some notes added in 1876
DISCLAIMER Whilst the webmaster and authors of all transcripts and articles have made very effort to ensure accuracy, this cannot be guaranteed as most items have not been double checked. Researchers are advised to check the original documents. This advice applies to anything found on the internet. COPYRIGHT Any material from this site may be used for personal family histories and research, but may not be used for any commercial purpose without first contacting the web master.
Webmaster Lynda Mudle-Small. Updated 9th November 2006 E-mail