The parish of

ST ERVAN

is in the Hundred of Pydar and is a small inland parish surrounded by St Merryn, St Eval, Little Petherick, St Mawgan in Pydar and St Columb Major. The main villages are Churchtown, Rumford and Penrose. The Church is tucked away at the end of a lane that leads only to a 13th century Mill, and is surrounded by its Churchtown including the Victorian Rectory and a Schoolhouse built in 1853. There were Wesleyan Methodist and Bible Christian chapels in Rumford and a Bible Christian chapel in Penrose. This is predominantly a farming parish and, as with St Merryn, the land stayed within families for many generations

"The Book of St Ervan" by Moira Tangye is available from Halsgrove, Devon (www.halsgrove.co.uk). ISBN 1-84114-494-0. It is a must for those with families in St Ervan and contains over 250 photos and maps as well as a wonderful history of the parish from the point of view of those families who have lived there for 100s of years.

The Online Parish Clerk for St Ervan is Susan Old, who can be contacted by Email.

I have been an OPC since the scheme began and have transcribed parish registers, and census returns - see below.
 
I keep my records in a unique form all stored in Family Treemaker 2005 and thus joined to all possible relations as far as they are known to me at this point in time. This record is not confined to my OPC parishes, which include St Eval, St Merryn, St Mawgan and St Columb Major, but also covers other Parishes which may, or may not, have their own OPCs.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

I have completed the transcriptions of all censuses up to & including 1881, and included the information in my database. Further 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:

Baptismal Register from 1758 to 1882, Banns 1797-1832, Marriages Nov 1837-1909and Burials 1838-1891, transcribed by me, have all been entered into my database; please see my explanation above. Earlier information is also available from the IGI coverage of the Parish (1602-1875) at FamilySearch.

The LDS Church batch numbers for St Ervan are: C021901/2, C053131/2, E021901, M021901, M053131, Bible Christian C065391. These are searchable by surname. Please note that the St Ervan Bible Christian Circuit covers many more parishes than St Ervan.

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

DIRECTORIES:

Please contact me for information or see the University of Leicester's website of Historical Directories.

OTHER:

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53

For an indenture, dated 1 Oct 1834, naming James HAWKEN, Joseph Hawken, Susannah HENWOOD, Thomas WHITFORD, Richard BINNY, Anthony BINNY, Richard VIVIAN and John DOWNING amongst others, click here.

An order of maintenance, dated 31 Mar 1841, naming Henry and Candy Brewer of this parish.

I have other publications in my collection which I'll be glad to check, so please contact me at the address shown above.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St Ervan can be located at coordinates F - 6. 

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:

St Eval, St Merryn, Little Petherick, St Columb Major and Mawgan in Pydar.

ONLINE BOOKS:

St Ervan 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 n444). Also downloadable as a pdf.