The parish of

MANACCAN

The parish of Manaccan (Monachan, Monathon, and, anciently, Minster) is situated in the Meneage district of the Deanery and Hundred of Kerrier. It lies south of the Helford river and nearby parishes include St Martins Meneage, St Anthony Meneage, St Keverne.

Manaccan is a hillside parish set in pleasant countryside. The church is dedicated to unknown saint, referred to as 'Sancta Manaca' in 1259. During the Napoleonic wars, Captain Bligh of Bounty fame was carrying out research for the Admiralty in the Helford River and was arrested as a suspected spy. He was locked in the coal cellar of the Rev. Richard Polwhele, but eventually released when he was able to prove his identity. Despite his treatment, Bligh and Polwhele became friends and remained in touch for several years

In this parish is Helford, which was originally a small trading village. From here is a ferry across to Passage House, now known as 'Helford Passage'.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP (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:

Transcriptions completed by the OPC are in our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently. The parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

The 1834 Voters List for the parish.

For further resources see GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Manaccan can be located at coordinates E - 2.

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 Keverne, St Martin in Meneage, St Anthony in Meneage and, across the estuary, Constantine and Mawnan.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Manaccan is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838. Also downloadable as a pdf from here.