More detailed information on Newspapers in Penzance and elsewhere is available.

• The Penzance Journal 1847-50, covered Penzance. 177 issues were published between 16 Jun 1847 and 30 Oct 1850. The only complete set is in the British Newspaper Library (BLNL), though the Cornish Studies Library (CSL) claims to have them as well.
• The Cornish Telegraph, Mining, Agricultural and Commercial Gazette 1851-1915, Penzance. 2277 issues were published between 3 Jan 1851 and 14 Jan 1915 at which point it became incorporated into The Cornishman. It began in 1850 and was purchased by The Cornishman in 1908 but continued as a distinct Newspaper (presumably until 1915). The BLNL microfilm lacks parts of 5 years (1868-69, 72, 97 & 1912). With the exception of the first 5 months of 1868, these can be found in the Morrab Library in Penzance.
• The Cornishman 1878 to date covering Penzance.
  This started as a single edition on 18 Jul 1878 and continued until 16 Nov 1944. From then on local editions were published for Camborne, St. Ives, the Scilly Isles and Helston. These were essentially the same paper with additional local material on special pages. The St. Ives edition went from 22 Aug 1946 until 8 Nov 1951 when it became the West Penwith edition, Penzance having earlier split off for its own version on 4 Nov 1948. These two edition ran in parallel until 26 Mar 1981 when they re-united as the Penzance and West Penwith edition for a further 5 years. On 2 Jan 1986 it became the Penzance and District edition and on 14 Feb 1991; variations were introduced for Land's End and Penwith Rural.
  Meanwhile, on 5 Jan 1984, a St. Ives and Hayle edition was spun off which further divided to separate St. Ives and Hayle editions on 1 Feb 1990. These five editions (Penzance, Land's End, Rural, St. Ives and Hayle) are still going together with the successors to the Scilly and Camborne editions. The BLNL have all the editions mentioned above and the Morrab Library have a bound collection which is rapidly deteriorating due to poor storage facilities. The CSL have a full set, as does the Penzance Library.

   

• The British Newspaper Archive contains images of several editions reporting events in Cornwall. These include the Royal Cornwall Gazette, the Cornishman, and the West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser.
• Details of Newspapers, published in Cornwall, on wikipedia
• Many Newspapers carry family announcements, including obituaries. Cornish Newspapers of significance are:
  • Western Morning News.
  • Cornish Guardian.
  • The Cornishman.
  • The West Briton
• Rita Bone Kopp and Julia Symons Mosman are transcribing 19th century editions of the WEST BRITON Newspaper. They now have a SEARCHABLE website with the past posts listed by year, then by miscellaneous, births, marriages and deaths. You should not to limit yourselves to just BMD, as many death mentions were made in the "miscellaneous" section. (You can also read Monthly excerpts from the paper - check under "miscellaneous").
• Births and Marriages 1836 to 1839, and deaths 1836 to 1838, published in the West Briton Newspaper are available on-line through the OPC search Facility.
• The holdings of Cornish Newspapers and Periodicals in Cornwall's Libraries are available on-line. ( 9/18 - previous link now dud, archives moving 2019)
• Further information on Cornish Newspapers, which could help research, is also separately available.
• The Cornish Echo was published from 1895 to 1952. It was, before 1895, called the Falmouth & Penryn Weekly Times which had been published from 1861 to 1865.

• Richard Heaton has compiled an index of digitized newspapers for London and for the rest of England 
• These pages provide links to (current) newspaper web sites in England: Online Newspapers - England A-K - England L-Z

• UK & Ireland - Newspapers - links and information.