From "Notes on the Parish of Mylor", published by Hugh Pengelly Olivey 1907Beware, Ongoing work - This is First Draft Only and like to contain typographic errors - only those sections linked in blue below are available at present Contents. |
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Section I Introductory and Topographical Description.
Section II Climate, Place-Names.
Section III Description of Mylor from old authorities.
Section IV The Martyrdom of St. Miloris, Cornish Saints, Churchyard Cross, Parish Feasts, the " Mayor of Mylor."
Section V Industries and Old Customs - In the Dairy, Agricultural Processes, Harvest Operations, Baking, Mining, etc.
Section VI The Church-Old and Restored
Section VII The Vicarage of Mylor and Mabe. Account of Glasney College. List of Vicars.
Section VIII The Vicarage House-Old and New; Old Terrier; Tithes; Old Church Town.
Section IX Monuments in Mylor Church and Churchyard.
Section X The Relief of the Poor and other Parish Charges. Overseers' Accounts, Perambulations, Carnon StreamWorks.
Section XI The Workhouse.
Section XII Extracts from Churchwardens' Minute Books, etc.
Section XIII Parish Apprentices.
Section XIV Carclew and its Owners.
Section XV Trefusis and Flushing.
index
Illustrations.
Mylor Church - South Porch and Cross of St. Miloris
Map of Mylor
Mylor Old Church - South Porch
Ground Plan of Church before Restoration
Ground Plan of Present Church
Mylor Church - Interior
- do. - North Door
Old Vicarage House
Old Chart of Falmouth Harbour and adjoining Creeks
Plan of Mylor Churchyard
Carclew House
The School House and Clock Tower
Plan of the Cregoes
Biographical
notes on Hugh Pengelly Olivey (1833-1918)
Hugh Pengelly Olivey was born to 11 Feb 1833 to Hugh Oliver
Olivey (Land
Proprietor and Justice at the Cornwall Quarter Sessions, b. 23
March 1797, christened 13 April 1797 at Truro, m. Peggy 25 Jan
1830 at Redruth, d. 23 Apr 1864) and Peggy Olivey nee Pengelly (christened 24 Jan
1808 at Landewednack, d. aft 1871). He was christened Hugh
Pengelly Olivey on the 19 April 1833 at Mylor church.
He appears, aged 8, in the 1841 census at Albion Cottage, Mylor. Albion Cottage was on a 99 year lease from Sir Chas. Lemon of Carclew to Hugh Oliver Olivey, his wife and eldest son Walter Rice Olivey (who became an army paymaster) from 1835 (ref CRO WH/1/859 & /860). (For more on Walter Rice Olivey & family see Victoria Rd, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire in the 1871 census, RG10/4218, folio 16)
In the 1881 census he appears as a General Practitioner, MRCS & LA, at North Curry, Somerset. The 1889 and 1897 Kelly's directories show him living at Trevarrick House in North Curry, he was "Certifying Factory Surgeon & Medical Officier & Public Vaccinator, No.3 District, Taunton Union". He was churchwarden in North Currey from 1890 to 1898. In the 1901 census (mis-transcribed as Hugh Hivey) he is back in Mylor shown as a Retired Surgeon. The 1914 Kelly's directory showed him living at Albion House in Mylor.
His wife Harriett A (Ann?) Olivey was born about 1824 at Cambourne, Cornwall. Hugh died 18 Feb 1918, aged 86 and is buried at the Burial Ground, Mylor Parish Church.
As well as the book on Mylor, he published "North Curry. Ancient manor and hundred" in 1901.