Family HistoryAre you looking for information about family members who were connected with Charlestown?Current registers are kept at the Church. Completed registers are held by Kresen Kernow (Cornwall County Archives) in Redruth. You can contact them at kresenkernow@cornwall.gov.uk or 01209-614430Volunteers from the Cornwall Family History Society have transcribed many of the register entries and headstone inscriptions, which can be found at Cornish Parish Records - search the Cornwall genealogy database (cornwall-opc-database.org). The Cornwall Family History Society can be contacted at Cornwall Family History Society (cornwallfhs.com) or 01872-264044.The graveyard has been closed for burials for approximately 100 years, apart from the interment of ashes in the Garden of Remembrance. Campdowns Cemetery nearby is managed by Cornwall Council, who hold the records. They can be contacted at www.cornwall.gov.uk or 01872-327823. The Cemetery also has 12 Commonwealth War Graves from the First and Second World Wars.Additional ResourcesAncestry® | Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History RecordsTrace your Family Tree Online | Genealogy & Ancestry from Findmypast | findmypast.co.ukFamilySearch • Free Family Trees and Genealogy Archives — FamilySearch.orgFreeBMD Home PageThe Genealogist: Search Census, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Parish Records, Non-Conformist Records, Directories, Military Records, Wills & more!Further InformationContact Julia Keep (Churchwarden) at juliakeep@btinternet.com or 01726-814612
The Churchwarden writes on COVID 19COVID 19Since the announcement of the latest ‘lockdown’ and the rapidly rising number of infection rates in Cornwall, the PCC have sadly decided that in view of our responsibilities to all who enter Saint Paul’s to suspend all worship except funerals. We are also keeping the number of people who enter the church to the minimum so that the chances of the virus spreading via human contact are as low as possible.Although the church as a building is closed and we are not able to meet together as a worshipping community the life of Saint Paul’s through prayer, reading of the Bible, and caring for one another carries on. In the words of the beautiful evening hymn, ‘The day thou gavest’ ,‘the voice of prayer is never silent,nor do the praises die away.’It has also been decided that, with the current advice, that we should avoid as much contact with one another as possible. Therefore, we are unable to produce online services at this time. There are other services broadcast and streamed that are readily available.Amongst these we would draw to your attention to the following:RadioMonday to Friday 9.45 am Daily Service BBC Radio 4 LW/198 LWWednesdays 3.30 pm Evensong BBC Radio 3Repeated Sunday 3.00 pm Evensong BBC Radio 3Sundays 8.10 am Sunday Worship BBC Radio 4StreamedSunday Eucharist from Truro Cathedral 10 am YouTube Truro Cathedral. Evensong from Truro Cathedral 4pm YouTube Truro Cathedral.Sunday Eucharist from Tewkesbury Abbey YouTube Tewkesbury AbbeyOther Resources‘Time to Pray’ www.chpublishing.co.ukOther material will be published on the website as available.We pray that all will be kept safe and that it will soon be possible for us to meet together again to ‘Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness’.Julia KeepChurchwarden
We deeply regret that the Churchwarden and PCC have had to take the decision to suspend worship in St Paul's until further notice. The decision has not been taken lightly however with many members of the congregation being vulnerable and also endeavouring to look after the clergy this was deemed the right course of action. Please be assured that the prayers of St Paul's will be ongoing and we look forward to being able to worship together as soon as is possible