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Lynch Gate & Coffin stand Gwennap Church

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" & then pressing the return key. Remember that there are two pages to every single image! This new "Family Search" replaces the old  Batch No. search of transcriptions. Searching the images will give a more accurate result, or confirm an assumption.

You can purchase a booklet from the Benefice of Gwennap & Stithians that records all the memorial inscriptions on headstones in Gwennap churchyard. This  was compiled in the late 1980's and often includes names, date of death, age of death, grave number and relations (father, mother, husband, wife, children) if available. A plan of the churchyard is included. The cost is £9 which includes postage and packaging. The email  vicar@stythian.org. to request the book.

 

The MI's at St Day Road Cemetery, Redruth are available online at:- 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chrisu/cornwall/cemetery%20index/redruth_st_day_rd.htm

Many residents of  Gwennap parish are buried at this Municipal Cemetery, especially if they were of the non-conformist persuasion as

Interesting article her on how to search at Burial Grounds  By Mike Kiernan

  Below are the  Burial records for Gwennap from the transcriptions of  W L BAWDEN

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