The parish of

MORVAH

The Parish Church © Anthea Augustson

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

Details of Morvah residents who married in Madron between 1763 and 1809 can be found here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

MIs - a few photographs are available here.

Wills:

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 Morvah 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:

Pendeen, Madron and Zennor.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Morvah (Morva) 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.
2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XII transcripts including Morvah to 1722, post 1722 records are included with those of Madron (transcribed and in our database)

Rosemergy, an Iron-age circular field, which still exists in the parish
© Charles Winpenny, March 2004