Trevalga

The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 256 entries.

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1901) is held in the Cornwall Record Office. The Cornwall Family History Society offers a census search service for its members.
Specific census information for this parish is available as follows:

• 1841. The 1841 Census of Trevalga (HO107/140), Enumeration District 4, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of Trevalga (HO107/1898), Enumeration District 6, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have compiled separate surname indexes of the 1851 Census for each Cornish registration district; Trevalga is listed in Volume 4. The booklets are available in Cornwall at the Cornwall Centre, (formerly known as the Cornish Studies Library), and is also available in the Cornwall FHS Library.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Trevalga (RG9/1515), Enumeration District 7, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871 The 1871 Census of Trevalga (RG10/2218), Enumeration District 7, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Trevalga (RG11/2272), Enumeration District 7, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Trevalga (RG12/1799), Enumeration District 6, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX0890 and was dedicated to St Petroc. It is an ancient building of stone which comprises a chancel, nave, and north transept, which was very dilapidated. The whole church was repaired in 1854. There is a south porch and a north door. The tower has three stages, and is finished with battlements; it contains three bells. The church at Trevalga is dedicated to one of Cornwall's greatest Saints of the 6th Century - Petroc, and incidents of his life are recorded in the panels to the pulpit: the stag - his emblem; the Saint being woken by an angel and commanded to go to Brittany, and his sheepskin and staff - guarded by a wolf! Whilst most of what is to be seen today is 13th and 15th Century there is still much evidence of the Norman church. The western tower is plain and unbuttressed, faces the ocean's gales; it was built in the 13th Century and remodelled two hundred years later.
• Non-Conformist. The Bible Christians also had a chapel here, and there was a small United Methodist chapel, which seated 84, and erected in 1872.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Trevalga are: C025251, E025251, M025251. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1539 - 1812.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1538 - 1975, Burials 1691 - 1977, Marriages 1539 - 1933, Boyd's Marriage Index 1539 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1790 - 1812.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line transcripts of:
  • Pre 1813 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1538 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD, baptisms 1720 to 1850 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Marriages.
  • Phillimore marriages 1539 to 1812, and parish transcriptions 1695 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Marriages in the Parish 1539 to 1838, which is available in CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD, marriages 1693 to 1838 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Burials.
  • Burials 1691 to 1936 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Marriages in the Parish 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book format.

Although originally in the Camelford Registration District, the parish of Trevalga is now in the Bodmin Registration District; there were sub-districts at Boscastle and Camelford but these are now abolished. Parishes within the Camelford district were: Advent, Davidstow, Forrabury, Lanteglos, Lesnewth, Michaelstow, Minster, Otterham, St. Breward, St. Clether, St. Juliot, St. Teath, Tintagel, Trevalga.

The Superintendant Registrar of Bodmin can be contacted at: Lyndhurst, 66 Nicholas Street, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 2AG. Tel: 01208 73677.

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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Trevalga to another place.

OPC Assistance. The On-line Parish Clerk (OPC) scheme operates a service to help family historians; the OPC page for this parish is available on-line, from where the OPC can be contacted by email.

The Domesday Settlements of Cornwall, a study undertaken by the Cornwall Branch of the Historical Association, has identified and located settlements listed in the Exeter and Exchequer Domesday Survey of AD 1086. The following places have been identified in Trevalga ecclesiastical parish:

• Trevalga (Melleda', Melledham), Grid Reference 081900.

• Map of the Camelford Registration District in which the parish originally lay.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SX089891 (Lat/Lon: 50.670222, -4.706263), Trevalga which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Trevalga parish was part of the Camelford Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

The parish comprises 1325 acres of land