CORNISH TOURS
Individual Tours of Cornwall
and HOME
Land's End, St Ives Penzance and St Michael's Mount
The Lizard, Helford and Falmouth
The Roseland, Bodmin Moor and Fowey
Tintagel, King Arthur's castle and the Wild North Coast
Looe and Polperro, The Tamar Valley, Plymouth Sound and Dartmoor
Cornish Garden Tours
Grand Cornish Houses
Easy Walking Tours
Painters, Writers, Culture Tours
Full Day Tours for Cruise ship passengers
Family History Tours
PRICES!
ATTRACTIONS and PLACES TO VISIT
Getting the Most from your Visit to Cornwall ... just a few helpful ideas!
Airport/City/Home Links
Map of the UK
Map of Cornwall
B&B in Truro
- central for all Cornwall
OTHER USEFUL CORNISH LINKS
About us
Terms
Link to The Official Cornwall Tourist Board Website
email: mike@cornwalltour.com
Voice/Tape
UK (0) 1872 262783
Averil & Mike Inglefield
VERY SPECIAL TOURS of CORNWALL
from FIELDINGS
35 Treyew Road
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 2BY UK
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If your ancestors came from Cornwall, you can
visit the house, the cottage, the farm, the church, the exact spot where
they lived, were married or are buried.
      
~~~just some of the places to which the Cornish migrated~~~
During the second half of the nineteenth century, almost twenty five
per cent of the population of Cornwall emigrated. As well as those who
crossed the Tamar to England, the Cornish left in large numbers for the
United States of America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Central and
South America and later to South Africa. As a result, there are some 6
million people world-wide who proudly claim Cornish ancestry.
By now you'll probably have discovered where they lived - possibly the
church where they were married, maybe the church where they are buried.
***Tell us the addresses and we'll make arrangements for you to
visit these places, perhaps speak to the present people in the
house/cottage/farm, enter the church/chapel, maybe with the minister there
to talk about your family and the history of the church, look around the
graveyard and view and photograph the headstones.
Did you know that around year 1840, the whole of England was recorded on
TITHE MAPS (very detailed maps) and TITHE APPORTIONMENTS (a detailed
record of who occupied each and every property)? The tithe maps and
apportionments were created for tax purposes - so the government made sure
they were correct! These documents are at the
Cornwall Record
Office and can be inspected - free of charge. So if your ancestors
were still in Cornwall at that time, we can arrange for you to inspect the
maps and apportionments at the Record Office. If you're not 100% sure,
this will also help you identify exactly where they lived.
The Cornwall Record Office is one of TWO important resource centres for
Genealogists and Family History Researchers in Truro ... probably the two
most useful resource centres in Cornwall for Family History Researchers.
1. At the Cornwall
Record Office there are all the Censuses, 1841 to 1901 (1911 won't be
released until 2011), Parish Registers, Wills, Tithe Maps, Bishops'
Transcripts and much, much more. The staff there are very helpful - and
we'll help you book it.***
2. At the Cornwall Family History
Society there are the St Catherines Records since 1837 (the hatches,
matches and despatches!), the IGI, the Censuses, the Indices of the
Memorial Inscriptions (the headstone records), and much, much more. Once
again, the staff (all volunteers) are very helpful - and we'll help you
book it.***
Both the CRO and the CFHS need to be booked. The CFHS is open on Wednesday
evening. We're members of both organisations.
You may know the name of the ship they migrated on and the port they
departed from. Did you know that at one time more people were leaving from
the little Cornish port of Padstow than any other in the United Kingdom?
Padstow is worth a visit whether your people went from there or not - old,
picturesque - just as you'd expect a Cornish fishing/merchant port to be.
As an experienced Genealogist/Family History Researcher we expect you'll
know all about the following websites! - but here are the links anyway:-
And of course, we'll be pleased to help you plan your tour in any way
we can. Just email us!
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