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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.

 

 
The Online Parish Clerk for St Mewan is Rita Bone Kopp, who may be reached via Email.

A Message from the OPC:

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

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) which is almost 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:

For further Parish Register information, please see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently, GenUKI (link above) and the LDS website, Library section.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI (link below).

OTHER:

For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.

MAPS

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St Mewan can be located at coordinates F - 4.

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

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