CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive |
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| A 'Mangel Cave' at Porthcothan Root vegetable, similar to turnips, used mainly for animal fodder © the Malcolm McCarthy Collection |
Seaweed Pickers at Porthcothan c. 1890 probably collecting for the Andrews family of Trevethan Farm © the Malcolm McCarthy Collection |
The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for St Merryn is Susan
Old, who is currently unavailable. In the meantime,
Philip Green offers help with research.
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
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
Mawgan and St Columb Major, but also covers other Parishes which may, or may
not, have their own OPCs.
Susan
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 (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.
Baptismal Register from 1720 to 1881, Marriages 1813 to 1906, and Burials 1796 to 1885, 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 (1616-1877) at FamilySearch. LDS Church batch numbers to use are: C053471, C002022, E053471, P002021, M053471, M002021. These are searchable by surname. Other alternatives and details can be found on the St Merryn page at GenUKI.
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.
Please contact me for details, or see the University of Leicester's Historical Directories website.
Voters Lists:
Various Documents:
I have other publications in my collection which I'll be glad to check. Please contact me at the address shown above.
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 Merryn 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.
St Eval, St Ervan and Padstow.
With a Pasty in my Pocket by Jack Ingrey and Malcolm McCarthy. ISBN-10: 0954991346. ISBN-13: 978-0954991340.
St Merryn 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. The relevant pages can be found under the old spelling of St Merran.