St Ewe Cornwall Family History Guide

St Ewe an ancient parish in the county of Cornwall

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Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1559
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1611

Nonconformists include: Bryanites, Calvinists, and Wesleyans.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EWE (St.), a village and a parish in St. Austell district, Cornwall. The village stands near the coast, 3½ miles S by E of Burngullow r. station, and 5 S by W of St. Austell; and has fairs on 10 April and 9 Oct. The parish includes also the hamlets of Heligan-Mill and Pengrugla; and its post town is Mevagissey, under St. Austell. Acres, 5, 935. Real property, £5, 823; of which £75 are in mines. Pop., 1, 334. Houses, 285. The property is subdivided. Heligan is the seat of the Tremaynes; and Treganon was the seat of the Tredinghams. The rocks include slates and copper and tin ores. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £440. Patrons, SirSawle, Bart., and E. Carlyon, Esq. The church is ancient but good; and has monuments of the Mohuns and others. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Bible Christians, and charities £10.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England

EWE, ST a parish in the union of St Austell, Eastern Division of the hundred of Powder and of the county of Cornwall, 4 miles ENE from Tregoney; containing 1699 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £21; present net income £492; patron Thomas Carlyon Esq. The Wesleyan Methodists have a place of worship here; and there are several small day schools, chiefly supported by subscription. This parish abounds with copper and tin, of which extensive mines have been opened, and works on a scale of considerable magnitude established.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831

Health and Housing in St Ewe

In 1842 the standard of health and quality of housing was described as follows:

Mr B. J. Ball, medical officer of the Mevagessey district St Austel union, gives in his Return, three cases of scarlatina gravior; the patients three children of a miner, whose residence he states to be in a low and marshy situation. Mr Ball describes this dwelling, which is in the parish of St Ewe, as “a small cottage with only two rooms, and a dung-pit before the door, kept expressly for the purpose of accumulating filth for manure, which he uses for his garden. A pit of this sort is considered by almost every poor man in this district as a necessary appendage to his cottage; he even values it at half his living, and says that if he is obliged to do away with the pit, he cannot grow his potatoes &c.: not thinking it is the very nursery of the fever which rages so on his children: and I have often the greatest difficulty in getting cottagers to remove them, although fever may be raging to an alarming extent in his house.

Parish Records

Marriage Records

Cornwall parish registers : Phillimore, William Phillimore Watts, 1853-1913, [from old catalog] ed : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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