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The name means Altar [church altar] of St Nonna. The village is to the east of Bodmin Moor situated on a tributary of the River Inney. It is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. Altarnun Parish is in the North Cornwall district and part of it lies within Bodmin Moor. Part of the new parish of Bolventor is in the South West of the older Altarnun parish. The area is mainly moorland but there are areas of farmland to the East and animals graze the moorland areas.
Population
| 1851 | 1931 | 1991 |
| 1382 | 694 | 852 |
Statistics: Bolventor created from part of parish 1849: 14990 acres of
land and 28 acres of water.
Altarnun is west of Launceston, just to the north of the A30
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Family 1: Elizabeth 1790
Elizabeth 1785 was born in Lewannick but there is no baptism record. In 1841, she gave her age as 55 and as 60 in 1851. On her death in 1858, her age is recorded as 74. She was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Guy. There was an older sister, born in 1784, who died in infancy and a younger sister, Mary.
Her father, Thomas, was unreliable. Mary Guy was already four months pregnant when they married by licence. Soon John had an illegitimate son and there was a bastardy order and maintenance to pay: in 1787, a month after daughter, Mary's, christening, John Prout was baptised in Altarnun - mother Elizabeth Prout and father Thomas Uglow, labourer of Lewannick, Cornwall (Cornwall Record Office). Thomas probably abandons the family at this point and heads to the far west of Cornwall, where, in 1791, he fathers another son, John Honeychurch, born in Phillack, mother Mary Honeychurch and father Thomas Uglow. Not surprisingly, Mary and her daughter's found themselves seeking parish relief. Parish apprenticeships were means by which children could be apprenticed off to save the cost of parish relief. Elizabeth was working at the age of just 12 as she was listed on the Apprentices' Index on 12th April 1796 (Cornwall FHS). She was apprenticed to William Northey, probably a mason living in Altarnun, in "housewifery" - to be trained in all kinds of work associated with running a household. Life went wrong for Elizabeth at this point - on 1803, she gave birth to a son, John Ogler, who was born in Altarnun, baptised 30th October. He was illegitimate and Elizabeth would be perhaps 19. Her apprenticeship would have lasted until she was 21 or married but perhaps she found herself out of work and out of home. Her mother was still living in Lewannick as she marries again in 1802 to John Babb, describing herself as a 'widow'. While her sister, Mary wandered far - marrying in Hartland in 1810 - Elizabeth remained in Altarnun. There was another son, Richard, born in 1812, but then the older boy, John, died before he was 10 and Richard had special needs. In the 1841 census she was unmarried and Richard was in Launceston Union House, She was 55 years old and a pauper, living with a young couple, James and Joan Rowe - James was a farm worker. In the 1851 census she is living alone and was described as an 'errant woman' - this might just mean 'wandering' or else 'morally wandering'. However her house appeared to be next door to the vicarage of the Reverend Tripp! She died on 16th August 1858 and is buried in Altarnun, aged 74 and her last address on the burial record was the poor house. She was the mother of:- John Ogler 1803-1813 and was buried on 25th July, as John Uglow aged 9, in the village.
- Richard Ogler 1812-1855 was born in Altarnun and baptised on 5th January 1812. In 1841, Richard was in Launceston Union House, a labourer, aged 25. He was still there in 1851 as a pauper idiot, with Altarnun as place of birth. He died in Launceston in 1855 and was buried in Altarnun on 28th July as Richard Uglow, aged 40, with the workhouse as his last address.
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