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The parish of

BREAGE

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Breage Church
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 		 Breage Church
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Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The OPC (Genealogy) for Breage is Deb Robinson who can be contacted by Email.
 
The previous OPC maintained a website which might be useful for your research.

For information about, and contact details for, the current parish council please see this website.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Please visit COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project), which is complete for 1841 to 1891 and validated, FreeCens at Rootsweb - both are free, searchable databases - or check GenUKI for other alternatives.

REGISTERS:

For Parish Register information, please see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently, GenUKI and the LDS website (Library section). The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI (link below)  or visit the University of Leicester's Directories website, which has many directories online to view for free.

OTHER:

The 1834 Voters' List for the parish (amended version of 1832).

To view a Bastardy Bond, dated 13 Aug 1746, naming Francis SPERNON of this parish, click here.

Settlement Papers:

  12 Jan 1728, Thomas REYNOLDS 6 Oct 1786, Elizabeth WILLIAMS (& Stoke Damerel)

Wills:

  19 Sep 1677, Hugh SKINNER 18 Oct 1737, Ann PEARCE
  20 Apr 1685, Richard RICHARDS 22 Mar 1738, John TREWEEK
  28 Feb 1695, nuncupative (oral) Will of William RICHARDS 31 Aug 1742, Philip SPERNON
  2 Jul 1731, Peter RICHARDS 24 Feb 1744, William HOSKIN
  29 Sep 1737, Ambrous PEARCE  

For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a zoomable and printable map of Cornwall please visit Cornwall Council’s mapping website. To see the Parish boundaries, click on the Layers Tab for Government Boundaries.

For maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

To enjoy a "walk" around this parish, search for Breage at http://maps.google.co.uk/, then drag the person icon from above the zoom commands and place it at a specific location on the map.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Germoe, Godolphin (post-1848), Sithney and Porthleven (post-1846)

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. Breage (St Breock in Kerrier) 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 n158). Also downloadable as a pdf.
  2. The Circle, or Historical Survey of Sixty Parishes and Towns in Cornwall, by William Penaluna, first published in 1819.
  3. The Story of an Ancient Parish by H. R. Coultard, M. A., first published in 1913
  4. Phillimore's Marriages Vol V transcripts including Breage (transcribed and in our database)