The parish of

GORRAN

The Online Parish Clerk for Gorran is John Whatty.

Please visit my website for many transcriptions of Parish Registers. If the information you are looking for isn't on that website, then please contact me 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:

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

OTHER:

Wills:

1. dated 1 Aug 1599, Henrye MYCHELL
2. dated 19 May 1625, Edward MYCHELL
3. dated 20 Feb 1631, Edward MICHELL
4. dated 1 Jan 1653, Frances MICHELL
5. dated 14 Oct 1665, Edmundi NORTHERN (and variants)
6. dated 18 Mar 1679, documents relating to the property of Richard VYAN
7. dated 26 Apr 1682, documents relating to the property of John/Johannis VYANT
8. dated 22 Oct 1696, bond relating to the property of Joanne (Jone) VYAN
9. dated 1 Aug 1715, Thomas DADDOW
10. dated 28 Oct 1734, Edward MI(T)CHELL
11. dated 15 Sep 1738, Jane DADDOW
12. dated 19 Aug 1760, Rose MICHELL
13. dated 28 Aug 1803, Agnes(s) MICHELL

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Gorran can be located at coordinates G - 3.

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 Michael Caerhayes, St Ewe and Mevagissey.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Gorran (Goran) 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 104). Also downloadable as a pdf.