Ruan Minor Parish, Cornwall - Genealogy & History

This is a small narrow parish, lying between Ruan Major and Grade.
Cadgwith is a quaint fishing village, near Innis Head and close by is a remarkable, nearly circular depression, communicating by an opening in the rocks with the sea, which is called the Devil's Frying Pan.

Cornwall Online Parish Clerk (OPC) Project

Margaret Bauer is the OPC for this parish. If you need any assistance with your research for this area please do contact Margaret who will assist in any way that she can.

Census records:

Another large volunteer project is the "FreeCen" project. The goal of this project is to publish online for free access, transcripts of all the English Census Records. The Cornwall section of this country wide project is well advanced and the links to the left lead to current records available online for Ruan Minor. Also making good progress is a project by "Archive CD Books" to digitise actual images of the various Census Records by agreement with "The National Archives" (formerly, The Public Record Office). Do visit there website for details on purchasing the CD's of the census records. Also available to make the searching of census records easier are indexes put out by the "New Zealand Society of Genealogists" (1851 index) and the "Cornwall Family History Society" and a visit to the respective websites will give details on how to go about obtaining these indexes.

The 1871 census is also online at Kindred Konnections One can use the search engine on the main page or click on "searches" under free guest services to the left and then click on "Cornwall Census" in the centre panel

Parish Registers

The links to the left will lead to some of the Ruan Minor parish registers that have been transcribed. There are other sources where microfiche copies of orginial registers can be obtained from, or where transcripts of the registers can be purchased on CD. Use the link to the left to visit the information page, where details can be found on what is available, online, from the LDS Family History Centres, from the Cornwall County Archives, and from other sources.

Links (Off Site)

The following are links to other resources for the Ruan Minor Parish:

Cornish Surname Index - by Place. hosted by Jon Rees - A list of Researchers with Ruan Minor Families. (scroll down)
Photos of Ruan Minor Church - from Truscott Family webpages
Wills & Admons for Ruan Minor, Cornwall 1660 - 1772 - can be found on Kathy Weigel's website