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St Ive Parish in South East Cornwall, pronounced as St ‘Eve’ (and not to be confused with St Ives, a fishing village in the far west of the County) |
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History Site |
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This site will eventually contain many free access historical references to the parish of St Ive, it is hosted by the Callington Heritage Centre. We hope this will be useful for family historians and local historians. The site was changed and restyled in 2009, and the intention is to have all the and register information available on a database, with additional information on the parish pages. If you cannot find the information you require please contact the Callington Heritage Centre using the link above. |
| St Ive Parish Registers. Please note these registers are in a poor condition and transcription is very difficult with pages missing, damaged at the edges and completely faded out. Transcribing them is a slow process with cross checking to the Bishop's Transcripts which are not much better. | |
| Baptisms 1683 - 1937 |
` Registers exist at the County Record Office for these dates. Our searchable database above includes transcriptions from 1778-1840. There is also a separate page for earlier records which currently shows attempts to transcribe baptisms and burials 1752-1771 |
| Marriages 1686 - 1972 | ` Registers exist at the County Record Office for these dates. Our searchable database above includes transcriptions from 1614-1837, the earlier references being obtained from Boyd's Marriage Index 1614 - 1672 |
| Burials 1686 - 1927 | ` Registers exist at the County Record Office for these dates. Our searchable database above includes transcriptions from 1778-1840. There is also a separate page for earlier records which currently shows attempts to transcribe baptisms and burials 1752-1771 |
| Church & Chapel | Descriptions and photographs of the 2 churches and chapels. |
| Methodist Registers | Details of where to find information on Methodist baptisms, marriages, burials. Also some transcriptions. |
| Burial Monuments | Please see the searchable database of all the monumental inscriptions in St Ive. These currently cover St Ivo parish church and a few memorials from the Pensilva Civic burial ground. Pensilva and the St Ive Methodist Church to be transcribed. |
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1841 Census HO107/133, Enumeration Districts 4 and 5, population 768, available off-site from the Cornwall Online Census project. 1851 Census RG9/1901, Enumeration District 6a and 6b, population 1013, available off-site from the Cornwall Online Census project 1861 Census RG9/1526, Enumeration District 5 [including schools], population 2593, available off-site from the Cornwall Online Census project 1871 Census RG10/2234, Enumeration Districts 5 and 6, population 2952, available off-site from the Cornwall Online Census project 1881 Census RG11/2283. Enumeration District 5. and RG11/2284. Enumeration Districts 6 and 7 population 2121, available off-site from the Cornwall Online Census project 1891 Census RG12/1809 Enumeration District 5 and Enumeration Districts 6 and 7, population 1716, available off-site from the Cornwall Online Census project. 1901 Census RG13/2191, Enumeration District 4, 5 & 6, population 1392, is now available on this site 1911 now available off-site at a cost, population 1267 |
| Street & Postal Directories | These directories list all the tradesmen and farmers in the parish. The parish entries for the following years have been extracted:-1856, 1873, 1878, 1893, 1910 & 1930 |
| 1892 Sanitary Report | Gives an interesting indication of the housing conditions of the period. |
| 1873 Land Owners | Lists all the people resident in the parish who owned land in 1873 |
| Land Records | Land tax assessments of 1805 and 1812 now on line, tithe records, manorial rolls and rentals to follow |
| Voters & Poll Books | Lists of men entitled to vote 1710, 1774, 1790, 1851, 1852, 1864 |
| Free & Voluntary Contribution | Lists those who made a voluntary contribution to the King in 1661 |
| 1662/4 Hearth tax | Lists all the persons in the parish who had at least one hearth and had to pay the hearth tax 1662 and 1664 |
| 1641 Protestation Returns | Lists every male in the parish who took the declaration (no known dissenters for St Ive). |
| 1544 Subsidy | Cornish Subsidies in the reign of Henry VIII, lists all men in the parish with land or goods of value. |
| 1522 Military Survey | One of the very first surveys in which the monarch tried to determine the wealth of the land |
| Maps | The 1888 ordinance survey maps of the parish can be seen at the old-maps site, just enter 'St Ive' under place search. |
| For modern location maps visit:- www.multimap.com | |
| For other parishes | If the parish you are interested in is not listed above and is in Cornwall visit the Genuki page. Also visit the OPC pages for a list of voluntary helpers for Cornish parishes. |
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