Cornwall Births and Deaths records

[Tim Kelly]

HI, Researching my family in Cornwall and records seem to stop pre 1530. Really happy to have gone back so far so just checking if this is as far as I can go. Thanks.

[KGarrad]

Using Cornwall-OPC-Database, check on the Coverage by Parish section.

[stanmapstone]

HI, Researching my family in Cornwall and records seem to stop pre 1530. Really happy to have gone back so far so just checking if this is as far as I can go. Thanks.

It was only in 1538 that Thomas Cromwell commanded that all priests must keep a record of baptisms, marriages and burials in their parishes.

Stan

[GrahamSimons]

Depending on whether you can get to London, this might be of interest:

http://www.sog.org.uk/books-courses/events-courses/tracing-your-medieval-ancestors-the-realistic-possibilities

[GrahamSimons]

Probably not helpful to the immediate enquiry but may be of interest:
https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterso00coxjuoft/parishregisterso00coxjuoft_djvu.txt
Chapter XIII is the relevant bit; I don't know whether modern research has shown any more information.

[stanmapstone]

Chapter XIII is the relevant bit; I don't know whether modern research has shown any more information.

Page 235; "As to the registers said to begin prior to Cromwell's order of 1538, the large majority of the forty set forth in the Blue Book prove on investigation to be but moonshine........Thus in the case of Penkevil, Cornwall, the initial date of 1516, as usually set forth, proves to be 1576, and that of Sinnington, Yorks, 1577 instead of 1517;"

Stan