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The ParishThe parish of Illogan lies on the northern coast of southern Cornwall forming an extended stretch of the county's coastline yet extending inland to the heights of Carn Brea. Illogan is located roughly 2 miles northwest of the mining centre of Redruth and sits just over a mile north of the busy A30 route which travels from London all the way to Penzance. Illogan, itself, is a mid-sized village but the principal settlement of the parish is the port of Portreath hugging the coast where the stream which drains the parish forms a deeply incised valley. Illogan parish has a long history, early settlement in the form of a hill-fort at Carn Brea was followed by Roman occupation to exploit the mineral wealth of the district. It was that mineral wealth that drove the economy of the parish, tin is the usual Cornish mineral but here it was copper ore that was the principal mined ore, the port of Portreath being utilised to transfer the ore to processing facilities in Swansea, Wales. Other extractive industries included exploitation of the local granite for building stone, other activities included pastoral farming and a small fishing fleet from Portreath. Modern developments did come and go to Illogan, a branch line from the main London to Penzance route once ran down to Portreath but this is now dismantled. Today the area, inland, has something of a post-industrial feel but on the coast the booming tourism business, albeit seasonal employs many folk with the coastal scenery readily appreciated from the South West Way National Trail which traverses the parish. Small streams drain the parish northwards rushing to the nearby coast in deeply incised valleys. Illogan village is sighted at around 80 metres above the sea but as a coastal parish land stretches from sea level to 225 metres on Carn Brea. One of Cornwall's larger parishes Illogan covered almost 8,100 acres even if early gazetteers describe over a quarter of the acreage as "waste", within that extensive acreage population was falling steeply from a height of just over 7,800 parishioners with out-migration a phenomenon apparent in the mining areas. In Domesday times Illogan is not mentioned in Domesday Book but the parish is covered by two manors, Nancekuke and Tehidy, the former, held by the Canons of Bodmin having relatively few assets whilst the latter, in the hands of Count Robert of Mortain could offer 17 ploughs as well as extensive meadows, pastures & woodland. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 16th April 1754 - 14th October 1782 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - FP/88/11 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading in the latter stages of this register may lead to some misreads |
2 | 1st December 1782 - 5th May 1792 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - FP/88/12 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 28th May 1792 - 23rd December 1812 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - FP/88/13 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Sporadic fading & also poor handwriting may to lead to a few misreads |
4 | 23rd January 1813 - 27th October 1827 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - FP/88/14 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
5 | 17th November 1827 - 29th June 1837 |
Cornwall Record Office - Reference - FP/88/15 | Nonstandard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is nonstandard by not being pre-stamped with its numbering that being left for the clerk to complete | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | Significant fading and poor handwriting at times lead to a likelihood of misreads and there may well be quite a few such is the quality of the media |
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St
Agnes St Agnes the Virgin
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Camborne
St Martin & St Meriadocus
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St
Agnes St Agnes the Virgin
Redruth St Uny |
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Camborne
St Martin & St Meriadocus
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Crowan
St Crewenna
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Gwennap
St Wenappa
Crowan St Crewenna |
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