St Erney

The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 263 entries.

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) 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 Landrake with St Erney (HO107/135), Enumeration District 10, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • The 1841 census for this parish has been filmed by the LDS church - film No. 241259.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of Landrake with St Erney (HO107/1900), Enumeration Districts 1 & 2, 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; St Erney is listed in Volume 9. 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 St Erney (RG9/1525), Enumeration District 2, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Landrake with St Erney (RG10/2231), Enumeration District 2, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of St Erney (RG11/2282), Enumeration District 3, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Landrake with St Erney (RG12/1808), Enumeration Districts 2 and 3, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX3759 and was dedicated to St Terminus. The church is said to have been built by the Dawneys of Trelugan; it dates from the 14th and 15th centuries. The church comprises a chancel, nave and north aisle. The arcade consists of four four-centred arches of fine granite supported on monolith pillars of the same material. There are north and south doors, but no porch. The tower is of two stages, finishing with battlements and stump pinnacles; it contains three bells.
• Non-Conformist. No Non-Conformist chapels are known in the parish. It is belived that the inhabitants used the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels at Landrake which were one and a half miles distant.

Many church vital events relating to St Erney are recorded in the records of the parish of Landrake.

• LDS Church Records
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for St Erney are: C053121, M053461. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage for this parish is 1555 - 1811.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1555 - 1811, Burials 1559 - 1812, Marriages 1555 - 1978, Boyd's Marriage Index 1555 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1800 -1812.
• Baptisms. The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD, baptisms 1650 to 1840 for the parish of Landrake & St Erney which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Marriages. The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Marriages 1555 to 1837, which is available in Book, CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.

The parish of St Erney is in the St Germans Registration District, and has been since 1st July 1837; there were sub-districts at Antony, St Germans and Saltash but they have now been abolished. Parishes within the district were: Antony, Botusfleming, Landrake, Landulph, Maker, Millbrook, Pillaton, Quethiock, Rame, St. Erney, St. Germans, St. John's, St. Mellion, St. Stephen's, Saltash, Sheviock, Torpoint.

The Superintendant Registrar of St Germans can be contacted at: Ploughastel Drive, Saltash, Cornwall, PL12 6DL. Tel: 01752 842624.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from St Erney 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 St Erney ecclesiastical parish:

• Tredinnick (Trehynoc, Trehinoch), Grid Reference 361597.

• Map of the St Germans Registration District in which the parish lies.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SX371591 (Lat/Lon: 50.40913, -4.293926), St Erney 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.

St Erney parish was part of the St Germans Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

Population figures for this parish were invariably enumerated with Landrake parish.

In the 1991 census, this parish was enumerated as part of Landrake with St Erney, Botusfleming & Landulph Parishes.

The parish comprises 844 acres of land.