Can You Read This

[Gadget]

Kris

This is annoying me - I lived down there for 22 years and did lots of research in Cornwall. I should know this

Maybe Stenales - the letter that looks like a g could be a long l 

I'm not going to sleep now 


Gadget

Only other one I can see is St mawgan but it doesn't really look like that 

[mermaid-nl]

I think on Ancestry.com they have a list of all the old ways of writting things.  I'm only a novice but was looking at it last night

Ursula

[krisesjoint]

Thanks Gadget and Ursula. BTW the burial was 1945 so not that old. What if we look for something other than this being a parish name. From the moment I saw it I expected that a Chrurchwarden would need be a resident of the Parish. I have no reason to believe this man resided anywhere other than Trencreek St Columb Minor since he moved there with his family as a Child.

The churchwardens of every parish shall be chosen from persons who are resident in the parish or whose names are on the church electoral roll of the parish

Kris 

[JAP]

Hi Kris,

I liked gar's suggestion.

So I googled for:
trencreek "st georges" church

There is a page of St Columb Minor photos at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cornwall/parish/colmin.htm
They include a photo of St Georges Trencreek (and the previous and following photos seem to be of the same church).

JAP

[krisesjoint]

Well done JAP,

I should have thought to google it myself when gar suggested it. I had just never heard of a St Georges in Cornwall so foolishly discounted the suggestion. Brilliant gar to come up with it, and JAP to carry on with it. I will have to look into the parish now. I wonder what sort of records are available. I have never heard of it but just maybe all the records I can't find for people in St Columb are hiding there.   

Thank You for your help...........Kris 

[JAP]

Hi again Kris,

I don't know whether St Georges Church in Trencreek is mentioned on the following St Columb Minor website:
www.stcolumbminor.co.uk/
(The site needs Flash which isn't on this computer).

I take it that it's a church within the parish of St Columb Minor - or at least within the geographical
bounds of that parish; but perhaps a non-conformist church?

Regards,

JAP

[krisesjoint]

Hi JAP,

I understand Churchwardens are CofE.  Not sure if nonconformists have them or what they call there people (perhaps something different) I doubt that it would be mentioned in Burial Register if it was not CofE. (As you say perhaps a parish within the Parish)

I am just in shock that I have never heard of it. I have St Col Minor Records already but now wonder if there are separate records for St George's so have already emailed the CRO. Hopefully next week I will know a bit more about it. If there are separate records for that Parish I will certainly be ordering them.

Some Lovely Pics on new St Columb Site but just checked it again and I see nothing re St George's.

Thank You again....Kris 

[Lyn S]

My first instinct was also St George's' but, having read the comment I wondered if it could be 'St James'?

Lyn S

[JillJ]

Jill where did you see the st to be?

I didn't actually see St - all I could see  the 'S', what I thought could be an 'M' and a 'y' and I had a stab in the dark!

Looking at the second image I can really do no better, other than to say that the apostrophe at the end appears to be after the letters rather than between, indicating that it could be plural for a name ending in 's', i.e. St. James' rather than St. Mary's.

Jill