Charles Hendersons Cornwall MSS

[JerseyGirl]

Does anyone know if any of Charles Hendersons Cornwall MSS is available anywhere online? I know Family Search has it but you need to go to a FS library to view. Is there anywhere else?
Tks

[Cornish Terrier]

I cannot find these online but if you take a look at the following National Archives link you should be able to find more information:-

discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/5af8e4bb-09bd-41ef-a911-644bb9193bbf

I have not had a close look but I am sure you will be able to find some help here.

CT

[donne]

I recall looking up some documents in the Henderson archive at the Courtney Library at the Royal Institution of Cornwall - that's the Cornwall Museum, River Street, Truro. Nowadays, they don't make it easy to use the library - open only 2 days a week and you have to make an appointment and probably pay for a research pass.

[JerseyGirl]

Mar 10, 2024 13:35:44 GMT -5 Cornish Terrier said:

I cannot find these online but if you take a look at the following National Archives link you should be able to find more information:-

discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/5af8e4bb-09bd-41ef-a911-644bb9193bbf

I have not had a close look but I am sure you will be able to find some help here.

CT

sadly not in the UK so a visit to Truro isn't possible at the moment.

[Cornish Terrier]

sadly not in the UK so a visit to Truro isn't possible at the moment

Same for me ............ but I had hoped somewhere in that site there might have been some reference to material being available online.

CT

[trencrom]

I doubt it is online, or likely to be in future: it's too big a collection. The LDS microfilmed it. It has now been digitised. But you don't necessarily need to go to an LDS family history library to view it; you can go to what is called an affiliate library. This is a non-LDS library which has affiliate rights, which means that you can view the records if you log into the Family Search website at the affiliate library premises. You would need to find out where the closest affiliate library is to where you are.

Trencrom

[donne]

I'm not so sure it's simply the size of the collection. It seems to me that the Henderson archive may be fraught with copyright and other copying restrictions since much of it seems to consist of transcriptions made in Charles Henderson's own hand from privileged access to private family archives. One can see that there may be a need to make accountable any copying made from the archive. In the case of the Courtney Library, lack of resources also seem to have hindered even the completion of a satisfactory on-line catalogue.

[JerseyGirl]

Thanks for your replies