DIRECTORY. J CORN'\VALL. PAUL. 1221 Woolcoek Wiliiam Henry, steward to Jenkins Frederick Turner J ames Albert, Biscovean house Tregrehan estates, Biscovean Rollings Rev. John [Bible Christian], Jeakin Frederick, shopkeeper & farmer Lodge hill Sleep John, shoe maker Biscovey. Truscott George, Biscovey house Turner James Albert, draper & grocer Brown Mrs. Parkingear PAUL is a parish nMr Penlee Point, the southern head- stands an ancient cross six feet high. Thomas Bedford land of 1\lounts Bay, 2~ miles south from Penzance, where Bolitho esq. H.P., D.L., J.P. of Trewidden and Charles Day is the nearest railway station: in the Western division of Nicholls Le Grice esq. B.A., J.P. Lord St. Levan, Charles the county, Penwith hundred, petty sessional division of Campbell Ross esq. J.P. of Carne and Miss Carne, of Pen­ Penwith West, Penzance union and county court district, zance, are chief landowners. The soil is rich loam; the rural deanery of Pen with, archdeaconry of Cornwall and subsoil is killas and granite. The chief crops are early diocese of Truro. The parish is governed by a Local Board potatoes and broccoli. The area is 3•433 acres ; rateable of 9 members, formed in June, 1891. The church of St. Paul value, £14,280; the population in 1891 was 5,977· is an ancient building of granite in the Perpendicular style, Mousehole is a large and important fishing village in consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and an em- this parish, half a mile south of the Church Town and 3 battled western tower with turret containing 3 bells: the miles from Pem.ance. There is an excellent granite pier, register records that "The Spanyer burnt this church in erected in 1870-71 at a cost of about £s,ooo, and forming a the year 1595:" a small portion of the old church is still perfectly sheltered harbour for fishing craft. This is a standing, and bears traces of the fire : bet.ween the nave and coast-guard station, with a master and seven men : harbour north aisle, at a height of about three feet, is a small arched master, Benjamin Carvosso Harvey. Here are Wesleyan ..opening, perhaps originally a hagioscope; fixed in the and United Free Methodist chapels. churchyard wall is a monument with inscriptions in English Parish Clerk, Thomas H. Wallis. and Cornish, erected in I86o by Prince Louis Lucien Hona- Sexton, Joseph Penrose. parte and the late Rev. John Garrett, vicar, to the memory PosT OFFICE, Paul.-Miss Elizabeth Jane Osborne, sub- ()( Dorothy Pentreath, who died in 1778, aged 102, and who postmistress. Letters arrive from Penzance at 10.20 was supposed to be the last person who spoke the ancient a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; dispatched at 2.35 p.m. & 6.20 p.m. Cornish, the peculiar language of this county: affixed to Mousehole is the nearest money order & telegraph office. the wall is also the quatrefoiled head of a cross, with a figure Postal orders are issued here, but not paid .Qf the " Crucifixion:" there is a stained window in each WALL LETTER Box, Sheffield, cleared 2. 15 p.m aisle: among numerous mural tablets is one in the south PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, aisle to Capt. Stephen Hutchens, who died at Jamaica in Mousehole.-Mrs. Robert Oliver, sub-postmistress. Let- 1709, with an epitaph in old Cornish, the only one now ters through Penzance arrive at 9.30 ~~o.m. & 3.15 p.m. ; extant: in the north aisle is the tomb of William Godolphin dispatched at 2. 25 & 6. 30 p.m -i>f Trewarveneth, ob. 1689, above which hang a sword, helmet WALL LETTER Box, Quay, cleared 2.15 & 6.35 p.m and other armour : the church was new-roofed in 1892 and LoCAL BoARD. further restoration is now (1893) in progress: there are 850 Meets at Church town on fourth tuesday in the month, at sittings. The register dates from the year 1595; the regis- 6.30 p.m. ters previous to this date are said to have been destroyed by Clerk, John James Carne, Mousehole the Spaniards, when they set fire to the church. The living Treasurer, T. B. Bolitho M.P. Penzance is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £388, net yearly Medical Officer of Health, Richard Davey Boase L.R.C.P. value £316, with residence and 3 acres of glebe, in the gift Loud. 5 Morrab road, Penzance ()f the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1876 by the Rev. Surveyor & Inspector of Nuisances, William Chirgwin, Robert W esley Aitken, of St. Bees. A cemetery of I! acres Church Town was formed in 1879, at a cost of £7oo, and is under the Collector, Thomas Lugg, Mousehole .control of a Burial Board of nine members. There are ScHOOLS :- .eharitie.s of £5 yearly value. There is also an almshouse, A School Board of 9 members was formed Sept. 28, 1875; founded by Capt. Hutchens, above mentioned, in 176o, and Madron with one member being contributory, Sept. 30, ~ndowed with land and house property producing about 1879; Charles Clemens, Sancreed, Penzance, clerk to the £135 yearly, for the maintenance of six old men and six old board: Thomas Tonkin, attendance officer women, born in the parish of Paul. Trewoofe (or Board, Paul Church Town, built in 1883, for 200 children ; "' Troove") is a romantic valley which terminates at Lamor- average attendance, 40 boys, 40 girls & 37 infants; Joseph na Cove; on this estate are the remains of a triple entrench- Charles Sims, master; Miss Kate James Beckerleg, ment, with subterranean chambers or caves connected by infants' mistress passages: one of these ca"~res, 36 feet long, 5 wide and about Paul (Newlyn) Board school, given under Newlyn ·6 high, is said to have afforded concealment to a party of Wesleyan, Mousehole; average attendance, 69 boys, 56 Royalists, who thus escaped the forces of Sir Thomas f<'airfax. girls & 121 infants ; John Birch, master; Miss Lillie There is also a fine chalybeate spring; on Paul Down Jeremiah, infants' mistress Paul. Consolidated (The) Tin Smelting Co. Matthews William & Stephen, farmers, Aitken Rev. Robert Wesley [vicar], Lim. (Thos. Willis Field J.P. manag- Kerris vean Vicarage ing director), Trerieffe Matthews John Badcock, farmr. Kerris Baily William Edward, Lynwood Cornish Charles, farmer, Paul hill Matthews John Henry, farmer, Kerris Chi1·gwin Percy Teague, Chyoone Curnow Wm. market gardener,Penolva Matthews Robert, farmer, Sheffield Davey William Philip, Gwavas villa Curnow William, market gardener, Matthews Robert, farmr. Carn Gwavas DeCosta Mrs. Penzer house Trungle house, Church town Matthews Thomas, farmer, Kerris Lavin Mrs. Chyoone grove Daniel William, farmer, Ennis Nicholls John, farmer, Reginnis Wright Josiah, Boslandew house Freeman John, Sons & Co. Lim. stone North James, farmer, Tru~le quarries, Paul hill. See advertisemt No-rth William, farmer, Church town COMMERCIAL. Giles Henry, farmer, Reginnis Olds John, farmer, Tresvennack Badcock Henry, farmer, Caunse Giles John, farmer, Castallack Osborne Elizabeth Jane (Miss), grocer, Bennetts Henry, farmer, 'fredavoe Giles Thomas, farmer, Middle Kemyell Post office, Church town Bolitho James, farmer, Berwinnay Giles William, farmer, Trevithal Osborne Henry, farmer, Trungle Brocklesby Philip Noah (Mrs.), farmer, Green William, carrier, Coombe Penrose Joseph, thatcher, Church town Halwyn Harvey Eliza(Mrs.),shpkpr.Church twn Polla-rd Joseph, farmer, Hollydale Bryant Fras.dairyman, Middle Kemyell Harvey John, smith, Sheffield Pollard Jsph. Hy. farmr. Low.Kemyell Carne Emanuel, dairyman, Trungle Harvey William, farmer, Reginnis Prowse Charles, farmer, Trevelloe -Carne Richard, market gardener Harvey William, farmer, Rosevale Prowse Chas. Thos. farmer, Red house Carne Samuel, farmer, Halwyn Hosking Geo. farmer, Higher Kemyell Prowse J ane (Mrs.), farmer, Kerris -Cemetery (H. Maddern, clerk to the Hosking Jas. Hy. farmer, Tresvennack Ray Louisa (Mrs.), dress ma. Sheffield burial board) Hosking Oliver, miller (water),Bosavah Reynolds Wm. Thos. farmer, Bologgos Chapple Wm. Edwd. farmer, Tredavoe Hosking Sampson, farmer, Bosavah Richards Charles, farmer, Chyenhall Chirgwin Hannah (Miss), dress maker, Humphreys Jn. farmr. Higher Kemyell RichardsJsph. mrkt.grdnr.Church twn Church town Humphreys Wm. Vingoe,frmr.Kemyell Richards Solomon, farmer, Kerris Chirgwin John, farmer, Trungle James Josiah, farmer, Trewarveneth Roach Robert, farmer, Middle Kemyell Chirgwin Percy Teagne, frmr. Chyoone James Silas, farmer, Bellowan Roach Wm. dairyman. Middle Kemyell ,Chirgwin William, district surveyor of Kneebone Heriry, farmer, Reginnis hill Roberts Grace (Mrs.), shopkeeper, highways & sanitary inspector to Kneebone Richard,farmer,Toddencoath Buryas bridge local board, Church town Kneebone William, farmer, Gwavas Roberts Hosea,seedsman,Buryas bridge (,'hirgwin William Ladner, market gar­ Lawrence Wm. & Son, frmrs. Bologgos Rodda James Tonkin, farmer, Trevithal dener, Reginnis hill Levett Ruth (Mrs.), King's Arms P.H. Rowe John, farmer, Kerris Clemans Fra.ncis, farmer, Penolva Church town Semmens John, farmer, Trewarveneth Clift 1'homas, shopkeeper, Sheffield Maddern William, fishbuyer, Trungle Semmens Thomas, farmer, Bologgos .