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The parish of

GOLANT, ST. SAMPSON

Golant Church Parish of Golant
The Parish Church
 		 Part of the parish and the River Fowey
 

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

The OPC for Golant is Sue Mutton, 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, FreeCen 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 and other resources, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently and GenUKI. The parish coverage page for C-PROP is here.

DIRECTORIES:

The Golant and St Sampson entries from the Post Office Directory for Cornwall, 1856.

For more information, see the University of Leicester's website of Historical Directories or GenUKI.

OTHER:

Banns Certificates:

Received from other Parishes between 1887 and 1911, Golant St Sampson parishioners mentioned:- Elizabeth Mugfur, William Broad Austin, widower, Fanny Pulling Langsford, Lottie Elizabeth Geake, Daisy Rundle, Edward Stone Rundle

Marriage Licences:

  1. dated 19 Sep 1898, John BROAD and Elizabeth HALEY
  2. dated 27 Aug 1901, John Braven DYER and Alice Fanny Emily TABB

Voters Lists:

  1. 1851/52
  2. 1852/53
  3. 1856/57

Wills:

  1. dated 28 Aug 1748, Robert HUNT

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Golant can be located at coordinates H - 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:

Tywardreath, Lanlivery, St Winnow, St Veep, Fowey and Lanteglos by Fowey.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Golant is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume II by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page 88). Also downloadable as a pdf.