St Hilary Cornwall Family History Guide

St Hilary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.

Other places in the parish include: Rosudgeon, Rudgevean, and Halamanning.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1677
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1609

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Bible Christian Methodist, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HILARY (ST.), a parish in Penzance district, Cornwall; near Mount’s bay, 3 miles E by S of Marazion Road r. station, and 5 E by N of Penzance. It adjoins the extra-parochial tract of St. Michael’s Mount, and includes the town of Marazion, which has a post office, designated Marazion, Cornwall. Acres, 3,657; of which 190 are water. Real property, £9,607; of which £813 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 3,021; in 1861, 3,459. Houses, 687. Granite and slate are the chief rocks; and copper and tin ores are worked.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £311. Patrons, the Duke of Leeds and others. The church stands on high ground forms a conspicuous landmark; was recently rebuilt; and contains monuments of the Godolphins and others. The p. curacy of Marazion is a separate benefice. There are several dissenting chapels. Palmer, the Nonconformist, and Hitchins, the astronomer, were vicars.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HILARY, ST., a parish, in the union of Penzance, hundred of Penwith, W. division of Cornwall; containing 3649 inhabitants, of whom 1683 are in the market-town of Marazion. The parish is situated on the coast of Mount’s Bay, and comprises 2675 acres, of which 900 are common or waste land; it abounds with mineral wealth, and the copper-mines of Marazion and Retallack are both within its limits.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £11. 6. 0½.; net income, £311; patrons, the Duke of Leeds, and the families of Buller, Beard, and Pascoe; impropriators, the landowners. The church is on the highest ground in the parish, and its whitewashed spire forms a conspicuous object in the scenery.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848