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 11^1/₂ 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. 

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
COMMERCIAL	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, Carne	Noy, 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