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'.
The Online Parish Clerk for Manaccan is Diane Donohue, who can be reached via Email.
I do not have a website; instead, please contact me at the above address
for information, or visit the websites shown below.
Diane
Information can be found at COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) which is almost 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.
Transcriptions completed by the OPC include:
Burials 1597-1910, Baptisms 1597-1901 and Marriages 1754-1901. These are
available in our searchable
database and for look ups by the OPC, who has also transcribed later
records.
For information, see GenUKI (link below).
More information on the parish can be found on West Country Genealogy or GenUKI. Link below.
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.
