Gwennap Baptisms |
Font in Gwennap church
The new LDS site given below has the original images filmed of the Gwennap Baptism Record Books 1658 -1900. at
The page opens at "Discover Your Family History". Click on SEARCH icon and follow these steps to find the record you want.
The LDS site http://familysearch.org; has the original images for the burial records for Gwennap 1658 -1900at "Discover Your Family History".
Click on the SEARCH icon, which will take you to the search page at https://familysearch.org/search,
There will appear a graphic map of the world, at the bottom of which is the instruction
Browse all published collections
1. Select 'United Kingdom and Ireland'2. Select 'Cornwall Parish Registers 1538-2010'.
This will bring up a list of parishes in alphabetical order. [St. parishes are under S.]
3. Select Gwennap.
4. A list of films for Gwennap will appear. Choose the record you want to view and click on it.
5. It will open with image No. 1.
You can find images a single page at a time by using the arrow, or move forward several pages by writing a number in "image xx of xx images" & pressing return key. Remember that there are two pages to every single image!
This new "Family Search" site is a pilot and is intended to replace the old style searchable Batch No. transcription. Searching the images will give a more accurate result, or confirm an assumption.
Carharrack Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Baptisms are included on the LDS IGI site
The following transcription are NOT available on the LDS IGI site but you can search them here by clicking on the year. The transcripts of the baptisms 1773-1812 are taken from those transcripts made by the local historian Bawden, or from the images of the registers at the time. Church Law changed the method of recording baptisms in 1812: thereafter the father's occupation was included, as well as the family dwelling place.
"Baptisms solemnized in the Wesleyan-Methodist Chapels, Gwennap Circuit
Front of Register has the following info:
NB. Transcribers notes:
At the top of some register pages it states that baptisms were in Gwennap chapels; on others it has that the chapels were in Gwennap, Ponsanooth, Frogpool & St Day but does not specify which baptisms were performed in which, so I have written "Gwennap Chapels"
Carharrack Chapel, Wesleyan Baptisms 1820 to 1837
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Carharrack Chapel, Wesleyan-Methodist Baptisms 1837 to 1842
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BAPTISMS January 1843 to 12 May 1847
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BAPTISMS 30th May 1847 to 2 Oct 1851
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WESLEYAN-METHODIST STITHIANS BAPTISMS 1844 to 1858 Formerly Tuckingmill Circuit, now Gwennap Circuit
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Born Redruth District [inc. Gwennap] This includes Baptisms And Marriages when EITHER parent or EITHER Spouse was of SUSPECTED Cornish origin
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