The parish of

ST EVAL

St Eval Church stands on a high Plateau 300 feet above sea level. It is surrounded by the remains of the Coastal Command Airfield of RAF St Eval, which was built in World War II. The Church holds the Book of Remembrance for those who served at RAF St Eval.

There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Tregona, and a Bible Christian chapel at Treburthick. St Eval is bounded by St Merryn, St Ervan and St Mawgan on three sides and by the sea on the fourth. The villages are Churchtown, Treburrick (formerly Treburthick) and Downhill. This is, and has always been, a small farming parish.

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for St Ervan is Susan Old, who can be contacted by email.
 
For information about (and contact details for) the current parish council, please see this website.

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:

The registers in the CRO start in 1695 and go to 1980 for baptisms, 1994 for Marriage and 1951 for Burials. I have transcribed Marriages 1837 to 1890, Baptisms 1762 -1882 and Burials 1779-1885 and incorporated them into my database. The LDS Church batch numbers for this parish are: C021921/2, C053141/2, M021921, M053141. These are searchable by surname.

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
3. 1856/57

27 Dec 1662, transcription of a pre-nuptial agreement, relating to the marriage of Martin LIVERTON & Jane MAYE

1 Jan 1663, indenture concerning Trevethan & members of LEVERTON family.

An 18th Century Charm/Spell prepared for Thamson LEVERTON.

I have a wealth of other material that I can consult to answer questions on this parish and its inhabitants.

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

MAPS:

For a zoomable and printable map of Cornwall please visit Cornwall Council’s mapping website. To see the Parish boundaries, click on the Layers Tab for Government Boundaries.

For maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

To enjoy a "walk" around this parish, search for St Eval at http://maps.google.co.uk/, then drag the person icon from above the zoom commands and place it at a specific location on the map.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

St Merryn, St Ervan, Mawgan in Pydar.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. St Eval 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 n446). Also downloadable as a pdf.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XVI transcripts including St Eval (transcribed and in our database). For the Contents page, keep clicking on Next until page 7/156 appears.