Feock

The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the parish church.

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 Feock (HO107/147), Enumeration Districts 12 to 15, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851.
  • On-line. The 1851 Census of Feock (HO107/1910), Enumeration Districts 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d and 2e, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • Booklets. The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have compiled separate surname indexes of the 1851 Census for each Cornish registration district; Feock is listed in Volume 21. 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 Feock (RG9/1563), Enumeration Districts 15, 16, 17, 18 [including Merchant Shipping] and 19, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Feock (RG10/2289), Enumeration Districts 15 to 19 [including Merchant Shipping], is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Feock (RG11/2314), Enumeration Districts 15 and 16, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Feock (RG12/1832), Enumeration Districts 15 and 16,is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW8238 and was dedicated to St Feoca around 1264. It comprises a chancel, nave, south aisle, north transept, and vestry. The arcade has six four-centred arches of St Stephens porcelain stone, with pillars of the same material. There is a south porch and a chancel door. The tower is detached from the church, and stands on an eminence several yards to the west of it. The tower is of two stages, has a pyramidal roof of slate, and contains three bells. The church was enlarged and renewed in 1844. The south entrance to the churchyard is through a lych gate, and over it is a room in which the parish meetings were once held.
• Non-Conformist. The Wesleyan Methodists and Bible Christians had chapels at Carnon Downs; there was also a Wesleyan chapel at Penpol, and another, built in 1866, at Penelewey.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Feock are: C023251/2, C052791/2, C135826, E052791, M052791, M132826. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1597 - 1875.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1671 - 1887, Burials 1671 - 1955, Marriages 1671 - 1971, Boyd's Marriage Index 1597 - 1672, BTs 1597 - 1672.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1681 to 1772 and 1801 (Bishop's transcripts), and 1843 to 1911 (parish transcripts), for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1676 to 1812 for this parish and these are available for purchase on Parish Chest.
  • The Cornwall Parish Registers Index also contains baptism details for this parish 1843 to 1905. The on-line index is searcheable by surname.
• Banns. Banns at Feock 1754 to 1798 are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Marriages.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Marriages 1597 to 1837, which is available in Book, CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Marriages 1597 to 1911 (parish transcripts), and 1681 to 1772, and 1801 (Bishop's transcripts), for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Burials.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Burials 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book or CD format.
  • Burials 1671 to 1936 (parish transcripts), and 1681 to 1772, and 1801 (Bishop's transcripts), for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

The parish of Feock has been in the Truro Registration District continuously from 1st July 1837. There were sub-districts at Kea, Kenwyn, Probus, St. Agnes, St. Clement and St Just-in-Roseland, but these have now been abolished. Parishes in this registration district are: Cornelly, Cuby, Feock, Gerrans, Kea, Kenwyn, Ladock, Lamorran, Merther, Perranzabuloe, Philleigh, Probus, Ruan Lanihorne, St. Agnes, St. Allen, St. Anthony in Roseland, St. Clement, St. Erme, St. Feock, St. Just in Roseland, St. Michael Penkevil, Tregavethan, Tregony St. James, Truro St. Mary, Veryan.

The address of the Registration Office is: Dalvenie House, New County Hall, Truro, TR1 3AY.
Tel: 01872 322241.

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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Feock 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 place-names below were taken mainly from Dr. Grover's unpublished typescript and Charles Henderson's works, both in the Library at the Truro Museum. We are specially grateful to Mr. Richard JENKIN for his personal assistance, and have also studied works by Morton Nance and P. A. S. Pool. [Source of extracted material: Feock with Devoran and Carnon Downs In The 19th Century, Part II; copyright by the Extra Mural Department, University of Exeter, 1973]

• Feock occurs as Ecclesiam Sancte Feoce in 1264 (S. R.); later spellings vary considerably and it was first spelt with a 'k' in 1394. The name is said to come from the Irish saint Fiacc or Fiaco.
• Devoran is mentioned as Deffrion in 1278 (Ass); the name is a derivative of dever or dover meaning water (Cornish dour) the old name for the creek.
• Carnon Downs occurs in the 1683 Recovery Rolls and means Rocky Downs, a mixture of Cornish and English.

• The parish and town tithe maps, and accompanying survey books of c1840, provide a fascinating snap-shot of land use and ownership in the 19th century. In order to preserve the documents and improve access to them, the Cornwall Record Office are digitising these maps and survey books. The CD ROM tithe package include a map and survey books, together with a reader, for this parish; it is now available from the Cornwall Record Office. Details are on their website.

• Map of the Truro Registration District in which the parish lies.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW812390 (Lat/Lon: 50.210526, -5.067444), Feock 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.

Feock parish was part of the Truro Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

Part of this parish became the parish of Devoran in 1873.

Most parish and church description(s) on these pages are from Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall by J Polsue (Truro, 1867 - 1873)

The Carnon Downs Old Cornwall Society News Page is on-line.

The parish comprises 2947 acres of land, 16 acres of water, 42 acres of tidal water and 306 acres of foreshore.