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The parish ofST EVALSt 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. 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. PARISH INFORMATIONCENSUS: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: 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 Parish Locator map, please click here. St Eval 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 Merryn, St Ervan, Mawgan in Pydar. ONLINE BOOKS: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. |