The parish of

BOCONNOC

The Parish Church
© David Coppin

The parish of Boconnoc lies about five miles east of Lostwithiel, south of the road from there to Liskeard. Boconnoc is a compound Cornish name and might mean "Dwelling place of Conoc". It was listed in the Domesday Book. The church is at Boconnoc House; nowadays, the parish is served by the church of the adjoining parish, Broadoak.

The House has a long history and was occupied by various families, including that of James Pitt, who bought the estate by selling a very large diamond to the French. It ended up on Napoleon's sword hilt, where it didn't do him much good! During the Second World War the estate was a vast American ammo dump.

The Online Parish Clerk for Boconnoc is Kay Halley, who can be contacted by Email.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP (the Cornwall Online Census Project) which is complete for 1841 to 1891 and has been verified, FreeCens at Rootsweb, which has a very good search engine and information from COCP, as well as GenUKI, which has more reference information and alternate resources.

REGISTERS:

Our searchable database (C-PROP) is updated frequently and contains full transcriptions, as well as other resources. The parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

Trade Directories for Cornwall can be searched online here. For other information, see GenUKI (link below).

OTHER:

Voters Lists:

for 1851/52, 1852/53 and 1856/57.

Wills:

1. dated 14 Dec 1808, Jane GILBERTT, widow

As always, additional information can be found in the Cornwall section of GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Boconnoc can be located at coordinates I - 5.

For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).

To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit MultiMap, or for maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

St Winnow, Bradock, Lanreath and St Veep.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Boconnoc is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume I by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page n102). Also downloadable as a pdf.