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 Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, 1883




MORVAH, is a parish 6 miles north-west from Penzance, and 4 miles north-east from St. Just, near the coast in the Western division of the county, hundred of Penwith, Penzance union and county court district, rural deanery of Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Truro.  The church of St Morvah is a building of granite and consists of a chancel, nave, aisle and an embattled tower with pinnacles containing 3 bells : the stained east window was presented by the Rev. Michael Nowell Peters  M.A. late vicar : there are several monuments.  The register of baptisms dates from the year 1653 ; marriages 1617 ; burials 1655.  The living is a vicarage annexed to Madron, tithe rent charge £882,  joint gross yearly value £890, in the gift of the three daughters of the late Rev. M. N. Peters M.A.  and held since 1880 by the Rev. Franklin Tonkin M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,  who resides at Castle Hornick, Madron ; the Rev. James Seller T.A.K.C.L.  is curate.  There is a chapel for Wesleyan Methodists.  John Borlase Esq. J.P. and Mrs Hichens are lord and lady of them Manors and chief landowners.  The chun cromlech consists of several upright stones, supporting at an elevation of about 4 feet a huge monolith nearly 13 feet long and 111/2 feet wide : on Kerrow Hill stands a monumental pillar 6 feet high.  The soil is killas; subsoil rabmen.  The land is principally pasture and the chief crops are wheat and barley.  The area is 1,226 acres ; rateable value £1,210 ; and the population in 1881 was 184. 

Letters through Penzance, the nearest money order & telegraph office is St. Just.
A school board of 5 members was formed in 1875 : J. Quick, Chairman ; & Charles Reed clerk to the board.
Board School, Old Bible Christian chapel altered, at a cost of about £200 for 30 children; average attendance, 25

Seller Rev. James T.A.K.C.L.
[curate] Vicarage House 

 Lawry John, farmer Tregaminion   
Osborne Charles, dairyman, Trevowan
Serres, Henry
Leggo. John, blacksmith, Church Town
Paul, William Robert, shoemaker
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Leggo, Phylis, [Mrs.], shopkeeper, Tregaminion
Quick, John, farmer, Trevowan
Daniel, Richard David, frmr, Rosemergy
Matthews, John, farmer, Chyoon
Roberts, William Mark, Star Inn
Davy, William, farmer, Rosemergy
Nicholls, William, dairyman, Trevean
Stevens, William, farmer, Chypraze
Hichens, Henry, farmer, CarneNoy, William, farmer, Trevean
Thomas, Martin, farmer, Tregaminion
Jenkin, Richard, farmer, Crewtha
Oats, Thomas, farmer, Trevowan
Tregurtha, Mary [Miss], shopkeeper

Oats, William, farmer, Trevean
White, Nicholas, [Mrs.], farmer, Trevean


Williams, William, carpenter

        
CHENHALLS, Alfred, junr. Farmer Registrar of births & Deaths for St. Just, Sancreed & Morvah sub-districts, Clerk to the School Board, Fore Street

County Magistrates
Acting fo r the Petty Sessional Division of The
Hundred of West Penwith

Bolitho Thomas Bedford esq. Trrewidden, Penzance
Bolitho Thomas Robins esq. Penalverne, Penzance
Bolitho Thomas Simon esq.  Trengwainton, Penzance
Bolitho William jun.  esq.  Ponsandane Penzance
Borlase John esq,  Castle Horneck, Penzance
Borlase William Copeland esq.  M.P.  Haregan, Penzance
Field Thomas Willis esq.  Chymorvah, Marazion
Le Grice Charles Day Nicholls esq. Trereife, Penzance
Molesworth Sir Paul William, bart. M.P.  Kenegie, Penzance
Ross Campbell Charles esq.  M.P. Carne, Madron
St. Aubyn Sir John bart. M.P. St Michaels Mount, Marazion
Tonkin Rev. John Trevervin, St. Buryan, Penzance
Trelawny Lieut-Col. Harry Reginald, Poltair, Penzance
Tremenheere Hugh Seymour esq. C.B. 43 Thurloe Square, London, S.W.
Clerk to the Magistrates, Thomas Cornish, Parade Street
Petty Sessions are held the Guildhall the first Wednesday in
every month at 10 am.
The following places are included in the Petty Sessional Division:-
Gluval, Ludgvan, Marazion, Madron, Morvah, Perranuthnoe, Pane,
St. Buryan, St. Just, St. Michaels Mount, St. Hilary, St. Levan,  Sancreed,
Sennen, Towednack, Zennor.