Parish Church Burial Ground Records (from 1895)
These are not Burial Register entries - they are mainly based on the sextons' records of burial plots in St Illogan churchyard. Recording commenced when the churchyard was extended in 1895. There are no records of burial plot locations before this date.
Inevitably there will be transcription errors -
(Some pages are very hard to read) these will be corrected as they are discovered. Many of the original entries are indistinct and care was not always taken at the time to ensure that details matched those in the Burial Register. Where an entry is thought to contain errors a note is included in the final column.
Regrettably, subsequent interments in old plots have not always been recorded. Comparison with Suezan James's list of memorial inscriptions
(see below) can be both fascinating and confusing!
Section A has however been cross-checked with the Burial Register and memorial inscriptions. Where there there are inconsistencies between the data, this is noted. We plan to extend this cross-checking to section B when time permits.
A number in the 'notes' column denotes the reference number in the parish Burial Register
| Records sorted alphabetically | ||||
| A-D | E-k | L-P | Q-S | T-Y |
Many graves do not have headstones, so to find a specific grave it is helpful to know the names of several adjacent graves, hence the inclusion the following lists. To further complicate matters, row numbers are not marked in the churchyard! Our churchyard plan will hopefully get you started.
| Records Sorted by row and plot | ||||||
| NS | SS | ST | CD | A | B | C |
North Side |
South Side | End Of Stables | Opposite South Porch | Newer portion, consecrated 1933 | Area still used for burials | Cremated Remains |
Illogan Cemetery
Most Illogan burials since the early 1950's have taken place in the cemetery, not the churchyard. Illogan Cemetery is frequently mistaken for the churchyard as it is adjacent to it.
We hold no records of burials in Illogan Cemetery, though Suezan James has listed many of the memorial inscriptions (see below). The Cemetery is administered by Kerrier District Council.
Trevenson Church Burial Registers
Compiled by Rand King
Burials in Trevenson Churchyard commenced in 1880 when ground was acquired on the hillside east of the church. Before this date the Parish churchyard at Illogan was used.Click here to view these records in a new window.
County Record Office
The following old Parish registers have been moved to the Cornwall County Record Office in Truro, where they are available for inspection:
Baptisms |
1539-1547, 1561-1589, 1614-1617, 1664-1665, |
Banns of Marriage |
1823-1993 |
Marriages |
1600-1645, 1654-1669 (with note of sequestration 1646-1660), 1735-1960 |
Burials |
1540-1543, 1559-1646, 1654-1695, 1735-1944 |
Cornwall Family History Society
The late Dick Bawden transcribed all our old registers and these are now available through the Family History Society. Altogether they have over 2,000,000 surnames on 8 computer data bases covering
- Marriages (based on Phillimore up to 1812 and then their own) for all the churches, from 1813 to June 1837
- Burials 1813 - June 1837
- Monumental inscriptions for many churches
- Censuses for 1841, 1851, 1861 and 1871, although the 1841, 1851 and 1861 are still being worked on.
For more information, visit the Cornwall FHS web-site or E-Mail them.
Memorial Inscriptions
You can see Suezan James's database of memorial inscriptions for St Illogan churchyard and Illogan Cemetary at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jon_rees/illogan_mi.htm
Suezan has plans to expand this information to include Trevenson churchyard
Online Parish Clerks
This is an idea to have one person per parish who would be the co-ordinator/collator of all parish register transcription data for that parish. These people have a special interest in the parish for which they volunteer and will collect data from as many sources as they can. These they will transcribe into a spread sheet format and make available for others.
Access will be provided initially by OPC look-up but later by making the collected data available on a central website.
The OPC for St Illogan Parish is David E.Crocker
David would especially like to contact people who have transcribed Illogan records (probably at the CRO in Truro) and to a lesser extent their own individual family records.
Further information about the OPC scheme can be found at http://west-penwith.org.uk/opc.htm
Parish Chest
This is a Cornish online family history and genealogical shop where you can buy just about everything to help you trace your ancestors and build your family tree. It claims to be the finest, most efficient and friendliest family history store on the Internet.
