St Keyne Cornwall Family History Guide
St Keyne is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.
Other places in the parish include: Lametten.
Alternative names: St Kean
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1721
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist and Society of Friends/Quaker.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KEYNE (ST.), or St. KEAN, a village and a parish in Liskeard district, Cornwall. The village stands on the river Looe, 2 miles S of Liskeard r. station; has a post-office under Liskeard; was anciently called Lametton; took its present name from St. Kayne or Keyna, daughter of Brychan, prince of Brecknock; and has a well, of ancient superstitions repute, dedicated to that saint, and celebrated in a ballad of Southey:- “A well there is in the west country, and a clearer one never was seen; There is not a wife in the west country but has heard of the well of St. Keyne. An oak and elm tree stand beside, and behind does an ash tree grow, And a willow fro, the bank above droops in the water below. If the husband at this gifted well shall drink before his wife, A happy man henceforth is he, for he shall be master for Life.” The water is reported to give the mastery for life to whichever party first drinks it, bride or bridegroom; and a quantity of it was, a few years ago, sent in bottles, as a curiosity, to a bazaar at Mount Edgecumbe. The parish comprises 944 acres. Real property, £990. Pop., 181. Houses, 30. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Tresilians, the Coplestones, and others; and passed to the Rashleighs. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £198. Patron, the Rev. H. Cory. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
KEYNE, ST., a parish, in the union of Liskeard, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 2½ miles (S.) from Liskeard; containing 194 inhabitants. The parish derives its name from St. Kayne, or Keyna, said to have been the daughter of Braganus, Prince of Brecknockshire, who lived in the fifth century. It comprises by computation 800 acres: the soil is generally a stiff yellow clay; the surface is diversified with hills, and the low grounds are watered by the river Looe. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £5. 18. 6½., and in the gift of Lieut. Cory, R. N.: the tithes have been commuted for £140, and there are 25 acres of glebe. The church is a small plain edifice, and near it is St. Kayne’s well, long celebrated in legendary tales for its peculiar virtues; the roof of the inclosure supports, in a singular manner, five trees, two of oak, two of ash, and one of elm, planted more than half a century ago.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Cemeteries
Census
Census returns for St. Keyne, 1841-1891
Church Records
England, Cornwall, St. Keyne, bishop’s transcripts Author: Devon Record Office (Exeter)
Parish chest materials, 1804-1877 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Keyne (Cornwall)
Parish of St. Keyne Author: Ivall, Dennis Endean; Thompson, Gillian; Ivall, Dennis Endean, Mrs.
Manors
Manorial documents, 1619-1788 Author: Manor of Lametton (Cornwall)
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Poor law records, 1856-1860 Author: St. Keyne (Cornwall)
Cornwall
England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010
Cornwall Parish Register Index
Cornwall Burials A-Z index of surnames of people buried in Cornwall
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: West
- Poor Law Union: Liskeard
- Hundred: West (Cornwall)
- Province: Canterbury