St Sampson Cornwall Family History Guide

St Sampson is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cornwall, created in 1737 from a chapelry in Tywardreath Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Golant, St Sampsons Golant

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1568
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1609

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist and Roman Catholic.

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Adjacent Parishes

St Sampson Parish Registers

St Sampson Marriages 1568 to 1812

The St Sampson Marriages 1568 to 1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

St Sampson Marriages 1568 to 1812 Cornwall Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 6. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, Thomas Taylor and Mrs. J. H. Glencross. Published London 1903. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co.

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SAMPSON (St.), a parish in St. Austell district, Cornwall; on the river Fowey and the Cornwall railway, 3½ miles S by E of Lostwithiel. Post-town, Fowey, under Par Station. Acres, 1,470. Real property, £1,650; of which £10 are in mines. Pop., 311. Houses, 55. The property is divided among a few. A castle of the Earls of Salisbury stood at Castle-Dore. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £53. Patron, W. Rashleigh, Esq. 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

SAMPSON’S, ST., a parish, in the union of St. Austell, E. division of the hundred of Powder and of the county of Cornwall, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Lostwithiel; containing 311 inhabitants. The navigable river Fowey flows on the east of the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £53; patron and impropriator, W. Rashleigh, Esq., whose tithes have been commuted for £205. Here was a castle belonging to the earls of Salisbury, the site of which is called Castle-Dore.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848