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The parish of

ST MEWAN

is located in the Hundred of Powder, bounded by St. Stephen in Brannel to the West, St. Austell in the East, and on the south, St. Ewe. The C. of E. church is dedicated to St. Mewanus, and is supposedly over 600 years old.

One of the main features of the parish is Polgooth Mine, which was once the largest in the County; in one ten-year period, upwards of five hundred thousand pounds of tin were taken from it, and for twenty years, Lord Arundell, one of the lords of the soil, received no less than one thousand pounds per annum as his share. At its production peak, many miners lived in St. Austell parish, and walked to Polgooth for their daily labour. If you cannot find your family records in the parish records of St. Mewan, please be sure to check the St. Austell website.

The principal villages are Sticker, Polgooth, and Trewoon. Each had a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, while there was a United Methodist Free Church at Treloweth.

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for St Mewan is Rita Bone Kopp, who can be contacted by Email.

Please visit my website, which is being changed frequently. If you have any records which could be added to my data, they would be appreciated. Rita

For information about (and contact details for) the current parish council, please see this website.

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:

Transcriptions completed by the OPC are in our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently. The parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

To view a Bastardy Bond, dated 20 May 1799, mentioning Edward CULLUM of this parish, click here.

Settlement Papers:-

  1. 6 Jan 1759, Thomas KEAM & family

Voters Lists:

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

Wills:

  1. dated 6 May 1685, Samson VIAN
  2. dated 27 Mar 1686, Thomas VYAN
  3. dated 29 Oct 1692, Michell BODDY
  4. dated 7 Jan 1763, Edward BODY
  5. dated 7 Aug 1811, Thomas BODY
  6. dated 15 Jun 1827, Peter BODY
  7. dated 15 Jan 1841, Richard HOOPER

For further resources see 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 Mewan 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 Stephen in Brannel, St Austell and St Ewe.

ONLINE BOOKS:

St Mewan 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.