Here you can post your family links with this part of Cornwall - North Hill, Trebartha, Trevadlock, Lewannick, Altarnun, Linkinhorne - and we hope you will make some new friends and connections!
There are useful links at the bottom of this page.
Steve Berkin, S Australia
"Being able to stay on a farm in the vicinity of my ancestors... [North Hill]
I have a family tree back nine generations with WADGE, Isbell, and eight generations for JAGO. To be able to visit Trewint, Altarnun, and Lewannick has brought my heritage to life. To walk on Bodmin Moor and visited also Plymouth where my people said goodbye to the Old Country, bound for my home of South Australia. My Cornwall experience is going to grow with me for the rest of my life."
Rosie & Rex Pomeroy, Colorado USA
'We certainly enjoyed our prowling about in North Hill and Trebartha village, searching for our Pomeroy roots.'
Budge Caunter Jasper
Message sent by Anna and Anthony Petrillo
d. Apr 1837, (son of Richard Caunter and Agnes Craddock) who married 9 Apr 1795 Ann Jasper born 1806, North Hill.
Ann Budge Caunter married Henry Coumbe 5 Aug 1832 Maker. Their first child, Emlyn was born in North Hill. Their son Henry born 1840 in Linkinhorne was my great grandfather.
Record found of Ann Jasper as mother of an Ann Budge Caunter. I don't know what marriage records show in Cornwall but if Henry and Ann's gave their parents' names, that would be a big help.
HAWKES
Message sent by Hazel Barron-Cooper, Sunderland in North East England
hazel.barron-cooper@ntlworld.com
posted 25.11.2010
My mothers' family name was Charlton and her grandmother was an Elizabeth Hawke from North Hill - married I think to a John Hawke. I was told as a child the family moved from Cornwall to the North East because of work in mining as there was plenty of that line of work to be had in County Durham.They first settled in Evenwood in County Durham and the family then moved to Hylton in Sunderland where later descendants(my grandfather) worked in the coalmines as a supervisor . Another family name I was told of was Susannah Maunder, originally of Brittany.I have no firm details as my mum died years ago in 1986 these are just memories of stories my mum would tell me.I dont even know if I have the names right or the spelling of Maunder.
To give a kind of time frame my mother Winifred Hazel Charlton was born in 1920's.
I was told the family in North Hill were market gardeners and made fiddles ( which I mistook for the musical instrument and learnt later they are agricultural implements). I visited North Hill for the first time 2 years ago and was so happy to see it was my ideal place , almost as if I had a memory of it myself. Does anybody know anything - does this ring any bells?
from Hazel with love to North Hill
HOOPER SPOURE
Message sent by Sandy Hooper Jensen, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
posted 12.11.2009
I'm a decendant of William Hooper(1632-1670) who married Frances Spoure (1635-1670) of North Hill. Some of the last names on the Spoure side are Bury and Courtenay and Reskymer. I have a good amount of informationon them but nothing on William Hooper's
ancestors at all.
If anyone could help with the Hooper side, I'd appreciate it very much.
Thank you for the" Big Differences" you are making in families lives!!!
WADGE
Message sent by Tim Wadge, Munster, (Ottawa) Ontario.
We're from the 'Samuel Wadge' lineage.
Son of George, son of Edward, son of Samuel, born 188, son of Richard, North Hill, born 1841, son of Peter, born +/- 1yr 1810, North Hill.
Born around 1880, married in 1900, my grandfather is Edward, born around 1910 in UK. All Immigrated to Canada shortly thereafter.
I will have full details (box of documents) from my brother in March to better pursue this research.
WADGE
Message sent by PAM AYERS - Hi from Christchurch NZ
Wadge families of Altarnun.
I am directly descended from Truscott Wadge and Charity Parsons married 1729 in Alturnan.
Would like to know more about the family.
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Links
| Cornwall census returns | www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Cornwall/index.html#census and www.ancestry.co.uk |
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| Cornwall OPC Datatbase | www.cornwall-opc-database.org Cornwall Online Parish Clerks providine a database of records that have been donated by transcribers worldwide. |
| Cornwall Family History Society | www.cornwallfhs.com |
| Genealogy Databases |
www.kindredkonnections.com www.genealogylinks.net/uk/index.html |
| Cornwall Family History Society | www.cornwallfhs.com |
| Cornwall Online Census Project |
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kayhin/cocp.html and http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kayhin/search.htm |
| The Yeo Society | www.yeosociety.com/familypages/yeoresearchers.htm |
More information
Census records
Census records are divided into groups by county, then by parish, and in many cases by enumeration districts as well. An enumeration district was considered to be roughly equivalent to the area that a census worker or "enumerator" could cover in one day. Some parishes may have only one district, others will have many.
