The parish of

MEVAGISSEY

Mevagissey is a lovely village on the south-western coast of Cornwall, near St. Austell, St. Ewe, and Gorran. Once home to a thriving fishing industry, it is now a tourist destination.

Mevagissey Outer Harbour © Charles Winpenny 2005
Mevagissey Harbour c. 1900 © the Malcolm McCarthy Collection	Mevagissey Harbour c. 1900 © the Malcolm McCarthy Collection
Mevagissey Lifeboat c. 1890 © the Malcolm McCarthy Collection

The Online Parish Clerk for Mevagissey is John Whatty, who can be contacted by Email.

Visit my website to see Parish register transcriptions and more.  If the information you are looking for isn't on that website, then please contact me.

John

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

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.

REGISTERS:

I have numerous Register transcriptions on my website.

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

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directories website.

OTHER:

Indentures:

1. dated 14 Jan 1770, concerning the Will of the Rt. Hon. John EARL of Radnor and the subsequent lease of property in Mevagissey, called Berupper, to Thomas HENNA.
2. dated 9 Jan 1806, concerning the Malthouse Tenement (in Portilly / Lavorack), its sale to William Jenkins ROBERTS of Ruan Lanyhorne and mentioning John ELVINS, Jacob THOMAS, Roger PASCOE, John COCK, Sampson BALL, Elizabeth BALL, Thomas BUNT, Philip FOOK, James PHILP, James BROCKENSHA, his daughter Lidwell WILCOCK, William JOLLY, Thomas HUNKYN, Peter FURSE,  Elizabeth PASCOE, Edward JAGOE, Benjamon HARRIS, William DUNN and James DUNN of this parish
3. dated 29 Jul 1836, concerning the sale of several properties (including the Malthouse Tenement mentioned above), some with fish cellars, to George John DUNN and also mentioning Thomas HICKS, Nancy CROSS, Willaim JAGO, ?---- HICKS, Jane COFFIN, Mary LEY, John ROBINS, Jane RUNDLE, Richard PAWLYN, Jane JOHNS, John STEPHENS, Thomas HUNKIN, William HARDING, John BUNT, John PEARCE, ?----- BAKER and Thomas STARK.

Settlement Papers:

Voters Lists:

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

Wills:

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Mevagissey can be located at coordinates G - 4.

For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).

ToTo see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit MultiMap, or for maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Gorran, St Ewe and St Austell.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Mevagissey 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.