Madron Cornwall Family History Guide
Madron is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall. Morvah is a chapelry of Madron.
Other places in the parish include: Little Bosullow, Tregavara, Polminnick, Trezelah, Heamoor, and Boswarthen.
Alternative names: Madron with Morvah
Parish church: St. Madern
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1577
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Jewish, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Madron Parish Registers
Madron Parish Registers 1592 to 1812
The Madron Parish Registers 1592 to 1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research
Madron Parish Registers 1592 to 1812 The First Book of the Parish Registers of Madron, in the County of Cornwall Edited, with an Appendix and Notes, by George Bown Millet, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Honorary Secretary of The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Published Penzance by Beare and Son, 21, Market Place. 1877.
Madron Parish Registers 1592 to 1812 The First Book of the Parish Registers of Madron, in the County of Cornwall Edited, with an Appendix and Notes, by George Bown Millet. Published Penzance by Beare and Son, 21, Market Place. 1877.
Madron with Penzance Marriages 1674-1812 Cornwall Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 12. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, and Thomas Taylor. Published London 1907. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co.
Madron with Penzance Marriages 1674-1812 Cornwall Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 12. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, and Thomas Taylor. Published London 1907. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co.
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MADRON, a village and a parish in Penzance district, Cornwall. The village stands on an eminence about 350 feet above sea level, 2 miles NW of Penzance r. station; and commands a fine view of Mounts bay.
The parish contains also the town of Penzance. Post town, Penzance. Acres, exclusive of Penzance, 5,505; of which 30 are water. Real property, £10,953; of which £80 are in quarries, and £15 in railways. Pop., 2,512. Houses, 481. Acres, inclusive of Penzance, 5,991; of which 115 are water. Real property, £42,952; of which £4,315 are in railways, and £175 in gas-works. Pop., 11,926. Houses, 2,422. The property is much subdivided. There are numerous good seats; and some of them are very old.
The road from Penzance to the village passes, on the right, an avenue to Trenear, on the left, York House; then passes, on the right, the new cemetery and its chapels, on the left, a lane leading to Nancealverne, Rosecadgehill, Rosehill, Castle-Horneck, and a wayside cross; then, about ¼ of a mile beyond the cemetery, arrives at a turning to the fertile tract of Hea or Hay, formerly an uncultivated moor, notable for John Wesley’s long preaching on it from a granite boulder, now covered by a Wesleyan chapel; and then ascends a steep hill to the village, passing Poltair on the left.
The road beyond the village ascends through the plantations of Trengwainton, formerly the seat of Sir Rose Price, Bart., and now the property of Messrs. Bolthole. Trengwainton Carn, on the Trengwainton estate, is famous for commanding a magnificent view, and is popularly called the Bull’s Look-out. Boswarra Carn is a rocky crest rising over the slope of a wild moor.
Lanyon cromlech, on Lanyon moor, consists of a tablestone 18 feet long and 8 feet broad, resting on three rude pillars; and is commonly called the Giant’s Quoit. Remains of another cromlech, nearly as large, are in a field of Lanyon farm. Madron well, about a mile N of the village, was long held in deep superstitions repute, for supposed thanmaturgic virtues; and was covered by a chapel or baptistery, some ruins of which still exist.
The rocks of the parish are both diversified and rich. Tin, copper, lead, alumina, fire-clay, porphyry, and granite, are worked. The tin was long obtained chiefly in the Wherry mine, which penetrated beneath the sea, and yielded so much as £3,000’s worth of tin in one summer. The fire-clay is used for making bricks of eminent suitableness for smelting-houses and furnaces.
The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Morvah, in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £740. Patron, the Rev. M. N. Peters. The church is ancient, has an embattled tower, and contains some good glass. A mausoleum of the Price family, formerly of Trengwainton, is in the churchyard. A rudely sculptured ancient cross also is in the churchyard, and stood for ages in the centre of the village.
The chapelries of Penzance are separate benefices. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, and Primitive Methodists, five chapels for Wesleyans, and an endowed school with £106 a year. The Penzance workhouse is in the part of the parish beyond the borough; and, at the census of 1861, had 147 inmates.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
MADRON (St. Madern), a parish, in the union of Penzance, W. division of the hundred of Penwith and of the county of Cornwall; containing, with the market-town of Penzance, 11,144 inhabitants.
The parish is situated on the coast, and comprises by measurement 6000 acres, whereof 2440 are common or waste; the surface is boldly undulated, and the higher grounds command a delightful view of Mount’s bay and the adjacent country.
The substratum is rich in mineral produce, but no mines are worked. Stone of suitable quality for the roads is quarried, and granite of a superior kind is found in abundance; clay, also, of a peculiar sort, is obtained for making bricks for smelting-houses and furnaces, being capable of enduring an intense degree of heat.
The living is a vicarage, with that of Morvah annexed, valued in the king’s books at £21. 5. 10.; patron, the Rev. M. N. Peters; impropriators, the Rev. C. V. Le Grice, and D. P. Le Grice, Esq. The great tithes have been commuted for £431. 10. 10., and the vicarial for £660; the vicarial glebe contains half an acre. The church is partly in the decorated and later English styles, with a square embattled tower. At Penzance is a district church; also the chapel of St. Paul; and the Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyans have places of worship.
A school was founded by Mr. George Daniel, and endowed with lands now let for about £106 per annum. Here is a stone with an ancient British inscription, stating it to be a sepulchral monument to Rialobran, son of Cunoval; the parish likewise contains the once celebrated well of St. Madern.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Mines
The information below is from 1870
DING DONG
- parish of Madron;
- post town and railway station, Penzance;
- 656 shares;
- Tin;
- Purser, Richard Wellington Penzance;
- Manager, William Williams Treloweth Saint Erth;
- Consulting Agent, Joseph Tregoning, Angarrack, Hayle;
- Agent, Thos Daniel;
- Accountant, N Paul;
- Engineers, George Eustice and Son;
- Pay day first Friday in the month;
- 125 fathoms deep;
- 222 persons employed.
Bankrupts
People declared bankrupt and the date of bankruptcy.
Pool John, Madron, Cornwall, miller, Feb. 22, 1823.
Parish Records
Cornwall
England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010
Cornwall Parish Register Index
Cornwall Burials A-Z index of surnames of people buried in Cornwall
Administration
- County: Cornwall
- Civil Registration District: Penzance
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Penwith
- Poor Law Union: Penzance
- Hundred: Penwith
- Province: Canterbury