CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive

The parish of

MORVAH


The Parish Church © Anthea Augustson

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

There is no OPC for this parish. If you would like to volunteer, please contact our co-ordinator Myra Cordrey by Email.

The previous OPC has a website which contains information and links.

Contact details for the current Parish Council can be found here.

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:

MIs - a few photographs are available here.

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:

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.

CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH CLERKS - helping bring the past alive