The parish of

GORRAN

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) 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.

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

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 22 Aug 1631, Richard BROAD
5. dated 1 Jan 1653, Frances MICHELL
6. dated 22 Mar 1663, Richard BROAD
7. dated 14 Oct 1665, Edmundi NORTHERN (and variants)
8. dated 18 Mar 1679, documents relating to the property of Richard VYAN
9. dated 26 Apr 1682, documents relating to the property of John/Johannis VYANT
10. dated 11 Feb 1686, William SLADE
11. dated 22 Oct 1696, bond relating to the property of Joanne (Jone) VYAN
12. dated 23 Oct 1700, Thomas HOBLYN
13. dated 4 Mar 1711, Richard BROAD
14. dated 1 Aug 1715, Thomas DADDOW
15. dated 26 Nov 1721, Edward SLADE
16. dated 28 Sep 1723, William SLADE
17. dated 28 Oct 1734, Edward MI(T)CHELL
18. dated 15 Sep 1738, Jane DADDOW
19. dated 26 Dec 1744, Richard BROAD
20. dated 19 Aug 1760, Rose MICHELL
21. dated 13 Oct 1783, William SLADE
22. dated 5 Jan 1802, Richard BROAD
23. dated 28 Aug 1803, Agnes(s) MICHELL

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 Gorran 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:

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.