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THE PARISH OF

ST BREWARD

St Breward lies on the northern edge of Bodmin Moor, north of the A30 and east of St Tudy and the Atlantic Highway.

There are several versions of how St Breward got its name - a not uncommon situation in Cornwall. It was not listed in the Domesday Book, at which time it was probably part of St Tudy. It was also called Simonward. The name Breward may also come from the French for heath, bruyere.

However, there was also a Celtic saint called Branwalder or Broladre in Brittany and Jersey. The church was dedicated to St Brueredus in 1278 and is the highest church in Cornwall.

Parish registers from 1558 to 1875 are indexed in the IGI.

 

The Online Parish Clerk for St Breward is Chrissy Parker, who may be reached via Email and who has a website containing many transcriptions.


 

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP - the Cornwall Online Census Project - which is regularly updated 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:

For Parish Register information, please see GenUKI (link below) and the LDS website (library section).

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI. Link below.

OTHER:

  1. For an indenture between John Price of Hundridge and Edward Chapman of the Parish of St Bruard alias Symon Ward, in the 5th year of the reign of the George II, original document dated 1719, click here.

  2. An Indenture/Will for Joseph Pope of Mikelstow, dated 14 Mar 1791 and mentioning property in this Parish.

  3. A Bastardy Bond, dated 26 Nov 1814, naming Thomas MILLER the younger of this Parish.

  4. For the Will of John Rickard, dated 1 Oct 1816, click here.

  5. An Indenture, dated 28 Sep 1863 but mentioning earlier agreements by John PAWLEY of this Parish.

  6. The Will of Loveday PETT, dated 12 May 1883, and Probate naming George Laxon PETT.

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

MAPS

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. St Breward can be located at coordinates H - 7.

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.