St Minver Cornwall Family History Guide

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St Minver is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.

Other places in the parish include: St Minver Lowlands, Porthilly, Trebetherick, Rock, St Minver Highlands, St Michael Rock, and St Enodoc.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist Association, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MINVER (ST.), a parish in Bodmin district, Cornwall; on the coast, 3½ miles NW by N of Wadebridge, and 12½ NW of Bodmin-Road r. station. It is cut into two divisions, Highlands and Lowlands. Post-town, Wadebridge, Cornwall. Acres, 8,683; of which 1,105 are water. Real property, £8,278. Pop. of the H. div., in 1851, 757; in 1861, 626. Houses, 117. The decrease of pop. arose from the discontinuance of mining operations, and from emigration. Pop. of the L. div., in 1851, 468; in 1861, 485. Houses, 116.

The manor was known, at Domesday, as Rosminver; and belonged to Bodmin priory. St. Minver House, Trevelvir, and Trewornon are chief residences. A creek comes up the SE boundary, and has a quay for the shipment of corn. A copper mine was formerly worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value and patron, not reported. The church stands in the H. div; and has a tower, with a lofty spire. Two chapels of ease, called St. Michael’s and St. Enodoc’s, are in the L. div. There are chapels for Quakers and Wesleyans, and charities, £22.

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

Parish Registers

St Minver Marriages 1559 to 1812

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
Martyn Cradock, of St. Minver, & Elizabeth Cradock 26 Jan. 1751St Breward

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cornwall, St. Minver – Cemeteries ( 2 )
An Index of burial registers between 1813-1837 for the parish of St. Minver
Author: Cornwall Family History Society (England)

Monumental inscriptions, St. Minver, Cornwall, England : 1697-1862

England, Cornwall, St. Minver – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for St. Minver, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cornwall, St. Minver – Church records ( 7 )
Bishop’s transcripts for St. Minver, 1673-1772, 1804-1805
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Minver (Cornwall)

England, Cornwall, Minver, bishop’s transcripts, 1596-1869
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Minver (Cornwall); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

England, Cornwall, St. Minver, parish registers, 1837-1906
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Minver (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office

Marriages at St. Minver, 1559-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Minver (Cornwall)

Parish chest materials, 1803-1886
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Minver (Cornwall)

Parish register of St. Minver, Cornwall, England : baptisms and burials, 1558-1812
Author: Glencross, Reginald Morshead

Parish registers for St. Minver, 1558-1979
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of St. Minver (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office

England, Cornwall, St. Minver – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of St. Minver, Cornwall, England

Parish of St. Minver
Author: Ivall, Dennis Endean; Ivall, Dennis Endean, Mrs.; Thompson, Gillian

Cornwall

England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

Cornwall Parish Register Index

FreeREG

Cornwall Burials A-Z index of surnames of people buried in Cornwall

Cornwall Historical Directories

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Cornwall
  • Civil Registration District: Bodmin
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Trigg Minor
  • Poor Law Union: Bodmin
  • Hundred: Trigg
  • Province: Canterbury