The parish of

ST ERTH

The Parish Church
© Julia Mitchell

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for St Erth is John Smith, who can be contacted by Email.

For information about, and contact details for, the current Parish Council, see this website.

The former OPC has a website, which might be useful for research.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP - the Cornwall Online Census Project - which is complete for 1841 to 1891 and has been verified, FreeCen at Rootsweb, which has a very good search engine and information from COCP, as well as GenUKI, which has more reference information and alternate resources.

REGISTERS:

For Parish Register information, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently and GenUKI. The parish coverage page for C-PROP is here.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see the University of Leicester's website of Historical Directories or GenUKI.

OTHER:

Churchwardens' Accounts:

1. 1767-1784 A list of tenements and their occupiers

Voters List:

1. 1832

For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St Erth can be located at coordinates C - 3.

For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).

To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit MultiMap, or for maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Ludgvan, Lelant, Phillack (pre-1888), Hayle St Elwyn (post-1888), Gwinear, Crowan, Breage (pre-1848), Godolphin (post-1848) and St Hilary.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. St Erth (St Earth) is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume I by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page n384). Also downloadable as a pdf.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XX transcripts including St Erth (transcribed and in our database). For the Contents page, keep clicking Next until page 7/159 appears.