The parish of

MAWGAN-IN-PYDAR

St. Mawgan, a classic English Village, is nestled round the Church and Lanherne Convent. Lanherne was the seat of the Roman Catholic Arundel family who also had close ties to St Columb Major. There were chapels for the Wesleyan Methodists in the Churchtown and at Mawgan Cross, where the Bible Christians also had a chapel.

The parish is bounded by the sea on one side and by St Eval, St Ervan, St Columb Major and St Columb Minor on the others. There is a thriving Parish History Group, headed by Bill Rowe, which is compiling a Photographic Archive. This is, and has always been, a farming parish, but it is also home to RAF St Mawgan, and the civil airport for Cornwall .

Please see this page for some Roman Catholic records and a description of the church.

The Online Parish Clerk for St. Mawgan is Susan Old, 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 join all possible relations, as far as they are known to me at this time. This data is not confined to my OPC parishes, which include St Eval, St Ervan, St Merryn and St Columb Major, but also covers other Parishes which may, or may not, have their own OPCs. Susan

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 parish registers at the CRO include 1674-1983 Baptisms, 1686-1971 Marriages and 1686-1887 Burials. There are also Roman Catholic Registers from the Convent. I have transcribed the Parish Church baptisms from 1755 to 1881 and marriages 1837-1907. I am indebted to Bill Rowe for the burial transcriptions that I have. All transcriptions have been incorporated into my database.

The LDS Church batch numbers for this parish are: C05552901/2/3/4, C020923, M052901/4, Lanherne Roman Catholic P020921, M020921, M866948. These are searchable by surname and cover the period 1608 to 1875.

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

DIRECTORIES:

Please contact me for details or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directories website.

OTHER:

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53
3. 1856/57
4. 1864/65

Wills:

1. dated 12 Jul 1742, Richard LEWARN
2. dated 23 Jul 1746, William ROBERTS

An Indenture, dated 21 Mar 1818, naming Francis HEARLE.

Some MI transcriptions, for the surnames CRAPP and LOBB.

I have other publications in my collection which I'll be glad to check. 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. Mawgan in Pydar 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 Ervan, St Columb Major, and St Columb Minor.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Mawgan in Pydar is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838. Also downloadable as a pdf from here.