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Baptisms
Font in Gwennap church
The new LDS site given below has the original images filmed of the Gwennap Baptism Record Books 1658 -1900.
Gwennap Records at http://familysearch.org;
The page opens at "Discover Your Family History".
Follow these steps to find the record you want.
1. Select British Isles.2. Select England, Cornwall Parish Registers 1538-20103. Select Browse through 202,423 images4. Select Cornwall.This will bring up a list of parishes in alphabetical order : parishes starting with Saint are under S :
5. Select Gwennap.
6. A list of films for Gwennap will appear. Choose the record you want to view and click on it.7. It will open with image No. 1.You can find images a single page at a time by using the arrow, or move forward several pages by writing a number in "image xx of xx images" & pressing return key. Remember that there are two pages to every single image!
This new "Family Search" site is a pilot but it is intended, eventually, to replace their old IGI Family Search site, although there are complaints at present as to the sources it relies on, rather than the old style searchable Batch No. of Gwennap Parish Church records. Searching the images will give a more accurate result or confirm an assumption.
Carharrack Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Baptisms are included on the LDS IGI site
The following transcription are NOT available on the LDS IGI site but you can search them here by clicking on the year. The transcripts of the baptisms 1773-1812 are taken from those transcripts made by the local historian Bawden, or from the images of the registers at the time. Church Law changed the method of recording baptisms in 1812: thereafter the father's occupation was included, as well as the family dwelling place.
"Baptisms solemnized in the Wesleyan-Methodist Chapels, Gwennap Circuit
Front of Register has the following info:
NB. Transcriber notes: At top of some register pages it has that baptisms are in Gwennap chapels, others it has Gwennap, Ponsonooth, Frogpool & St Day Chapels but does not stipulate which specific ones were at the previous named chapels. Hence I have written "Gwennap Chapels"
