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Cornwall Monumental Inscription Index

• Transcription and conventions used
• Coverage
• Checking
• Grouping
• Abbreviations and codes
• Contact details
• How to buy
• Copyright

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Transcription and conventions used

The Cornwall Monumental Inscription Index consists of 306,266 records from inscriptions on 129,759 gravestones and other monuments.

The data records include:

• Burial Ground - Church, chapel or cemetery.
• Ref - unique to gravestone or monument in burial ground - not shown
• Title - e.g. Reverend, Mrs, wife of.
• Forenames - some forenames have been standardised.
• Surname
• Alternate surname
• Post Nominal - appears after surname, e.g. junior, senior, and family.
• Date - date of death typically, may be shown as [ref] for a reference to a person.
• Age - age at death - may also indicate months (m)
• Card or Location Number - either CARD or LOC NO - not shown
• Year - year part of date - not shown
• Numeric Age - not shown

This data is based on that transcribed and input by members of Cornwall FHS worldwide.

About 90% of parish churchyards are covered. There are a large number of non parish burials grounds and whilst many of these have not been covered we are currently setting up a project to identify those missing and transcribe and data enter the information from them.

Some Burial Grounds contain data from as early as 1259, with many starting in the 1600's.

The project has been running for a couple of decades and there are have been some new burials since the original transcription. Some Churchyards were incompletely transcribed and there are sections, occasionally large, missing. In addition about 30 churchyards were not transcribed for entries after the 1920's. These situations are being addressed and will be added to the online data when completed.

It is worth noting that a comparison between our 1813-1837 burials and our Monumental Inscriptions revealed less than 10% of people had an inscription during that period.

Any field which contains a suspect entry has a space and a question mark appended at the end. This indicates uncertainty about the data even after checking with the original, e.g. Thomasoin ?

Coverage

The following burial grounds are included in the data with entries for both start and end years.

Checking

There is no specific information about the level of checking that has been performed - this is likely to vary between burial grounds.

Grouping

Records in this database are grouped by gravestone or monument.

Abbreviations and Codes

Unless one of the following suffixes has been used the age is in years:

• y - years
• m - months
• d - days
• h - hours
• inf - an infant

Contact details

Please see the Cornwall Family History Society web site, www.cornwallfhs.com, for more information about this database.

How to buy

A range of parish publications are available - please see the Society's web site.

Copyright and disclaimer

© Trustees of the Cornwall Family History Society and others to be defined.

While every care has been taken in the preparation of the index users are advised to view the original gravestone wherever possible. The Cornwall Family History Society accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain.

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