I can help with all resources marked , copyright permitting.

This description is applied to the miscellaneous collection of records that were kept on the church premises. I think it was in the C16^th. that churches were obliged to provide a lockable chest for the storage of records, and many of these still survive. The sort of records you would have found there were churchwarden's accounts, vestry minutes, poor law records, sexton's records (grave registers and churchyard plans), tithe and rate books, apprentiship indentures and all sorts of other stuff that no one threw away. The majority of this is now preserved at the CRO but, regretably, some has been lost or ended up in private hands.

At present there are some records included here which are not strictly parish chest, but this is a suitable parking place until a better page is written.

• St. Buryan

  Churchwardens' accounts & rates 1674–1742, 1744–1861 CRO. LDS [1597088/15, 1597136/1–2].
  Apprenticeship indentures 1783 CRO. LDS [1596370/5].
  Bastardy papers 1814–43 CRO. LDS [1596397/5].
  Settlement papers 1773–1843 CRO. LDS [1596549/6].
  Overseers' accounts, poor rates etc. 1728–91, 1816–34 CRO. LDS [1596620/7–9].
  Constables' accounts (undated but C18–19^th.) CRO. LDS [1565084/10].

• Gulval

  Vestry minutes 1809–87 CRO [P77/8/4–5]. LDS [1597295/1–2].
  Vestry book 1809–44 CRO. LDS [0226153].
  Apprenticeship indentures 1773–1832 CRO. LDS [1596371/2].
  Bastardy papers 1745–1832 CRO. LDS [1596397/14]. 1661–1784, 1790–1807 CRO. LDS [1597086/26–27]
  Settlement papers 1737–1825 CRO. LDS [1596593/2]. 1739–1818 CRO. LDS [1597086/6].
  Overseers' accounts, poor rates etc. 1784–1825 CRO. LDS [1597029/4].
  Gulval School admission papers 1913–46 CRO [SRA/GUL/1/1]. LDS [1471658/13].

• St. Ives

  Churchwardens' accounts and rates 1709 CRO [P91/4/1]. LDS [1597139/3].
  Vestry minutes 1852–61 CRO [P91/8/1]. LDS [1597295/7].
  St. Ives Borough. Oaths of various officials 1807–19, 1858–81 CRO. LDS [1565451/11–12]
  St. Ives Borough. Election indentures 1820–69 CRO. LDS [1565451/11–12].
  St. Ives and St. John's School Admission registers 1909–65 CRO [SRA/IVES/1/1]. LDS [1471658/16].

• St. Just in Penwith

  Overseers' accounts, poor rates etc. 1768–89 CRO [AD/766/2]. LDS [1597030/3].
  Churchwardens' accounts and rates 1790–1825 CRO [AD/749/6]. LDS [1597292/3].
  The diary of the Sexton, 1893–1902 Transcript [Fran Stewart 2003?] (On this site)

• Lelant

  Church rates 1722–1800 CRO. LDS [0254226].
  Poor rates and disbursements 1770–1802 CRO. LDS [0254227].
  Overseer of the poor accounts 1821–28 CRO. LDS [0254227].
  Churchwardens' accounts and rates 1722–1800 CRO [P120/5/1]. LDS [1597140/17].
  Overseers' accounts 1770–1802, 1821–28 CRO [P120/12/1–2]. LDS [1596873/6–7].

• St. Levan

  Overseers' accounts 1729–69 CRO [P122/12/1]. LDS [1596873/8].

• Ludgvan

  Churchwardens’ accounts 1856–67, 1778–1856 CRO. LDS [1597194/9–11]
  Vestry minutes 1799–1843, 1828–40, 1843–61 CRO. LDS [1597409/1–4].
  Rents and Tithes 1823–46 CRO. LDS [ 246900]
  Poor law papers CRO [P/129/13/7/1; 20/1–2, 21/1; DC/WPRDC/342–343; P/129/17/1] includes Bastardy papers (Bonds) 1760–1820 LDS [1596397/25] Transcript [Barbara Schenck 2005] (On this site), Miscellaneous ledger 1828–40 (contains names of overseers’ of the poor, correspondence, poor families with dates of birth, apprentices, overseers’ accounts and vestry minutes), Poor rates and overseers’ accounts 1778–1824, Overseers’ accounts 1700–48 LDS [1596884/2–6], Settlement papers 1770–1874 LDS [1596594/2], Highway rates and accounts 1829–39, 1799–1807 LDS [1565050/1–3], Highway rates and accounts 1840–44, 1848–51 LDS [1565084/1–2], Poor rates, 1837–c.87 LDS [1565209/7], Highway rates 1850–62, Poor rates 1846–60, 1857–58 LDS [1565341/3–18]
  Admission Registers Whitecross School 1824–1928 CRO [SRA/LUD/3/1] LDS [1471709/28]

• Madron

  Modern parishes

  • Penzance St. Mary

• Morvah

• Paul

• Sancreed

• Sennen

• Towednack

• Zennor