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Just to give the OPC site a little plug -- if you happen to have a bit of spare time, you can do it too. The parish records come to you by email as images you view with Windows picture viewer or whatever it is, and you get an Excel sheet to type the info into (date, place names ...) and it's s little bit tedious but can also be interesing -- I'm getting to know the families in the parish I'm working on, which unfortunately isn't a parish I have any connection with ...
And here I am in central Canada, getting ready to knock off work and go have a midnight supper and watch Coronation Street, while you're bright-eyed and bushytailed down under.
The things I do know about my Cornwall families before 1840 (once I discovered that's where one of my gr-grandparents' families were long rooted before his household upped sticks to other parts of the UK, temporarily to Australia, and then to Canada), I do largely owe to the people who have been doing it all before me and the OPCs for the parishes there.
HILL, HOARE, BOND, SIBLY, Cornwall (Devon); DENNIS, PAGE, WHITBREAD, Essex; BARNARD, CASTLE, PONTON, Wiltshire; SANKEY, HORNE, YOUNG, Kent; COWDELL, Bermondsey; COOPER, SMITH, FALLOWELL, WILLEY, Notts; CAMPION, CARTER, CRADDOCK, KENNY, Northants; LITTLER, CORNER, Leicestershire; RUSHLAND, Lincolnshire; MORRISON, Ireland; COLLINS, ?; ... MONCK?