Calstock Cornwall Family History Guide

Calstock is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.

Other places in the parish include: Berippa, Trewithan, Gunnislake, and Metherel.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1656
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Bible Christian Methodist, Irvingite/Catholic Apostolic Church, Methodist, Presbyterian, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Callington
Bere Ferrers with Bere Alston
Stoke Climsland
St Dominic
Tavistock
Lamerton

St Andrew's Church in Calstock. Nick Lansley. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

The arrival by train at Calstock in Cornwall over the viaduct in 1979. Barry Lewis. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CALSTOCK, a village and a parish in Liskeard district, Cornwall. The village stands on the river Tamar, near the Tavistock canal, 5½ miles WNW of Horrabridge r. station, and 6 SW of Tavistock; is a sub-port to Plymouth; and has a post office under Tavistock, and an inn. The parish comprises 6,133 acres. Real property, £14,233; of which £4,173 are in mines, £30 in quarries, and £50 in fisheries. Pop., 7,090. Houses, 1,377. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to the duchy of Cornwall; Calstock House is an old mansion, the seat of the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe; and Harewood House is the seat of Sir W. Trelawny, Bart. Porphyritic elvan, called Roborough stone, is quarried; granite abounds; and tin, copper, manganese, and lead ores have been mined. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £510. Patron, the Prince of Wales. The church is a granite structure, with a lofty pinnacled tower; and contains the vault of the Edgcumbes, and monuments to Pearse Edgcumbe and the Countess of Sandwich There is a Baptist chapel. Blackburn, Archbishop of York, was rector.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Bankrupts

People from Calstock who were declared bankrupt and the date of bankruptcy.

Almond William, jun, Newbridge, Calstock, Cornwall, brewer, Jan. 23, 1821.

Bennetts Jonas and Nicholas Robins; Gunnislake, Cornwall, granite merchants, Dec. 13, 1831.

Bennetts Jonas; and Nicholas Robins; Gunnislake, Cornwall, granite merchants, Oct. 12, 1832.

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

County: Cornwall
Civil Registration District: Liskeard
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
Diocese: Exeter
Rural Deanery: East
Poor Law Union: Tawstock
Hundred: East (Cornwall)
Province: Canterbury