The parish of

RAME

The Old Chapel at Rame Head
Contributed by Diane Donohue

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Rame is Gillian Kempster, who can be contacted 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, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP), which is updated frequently, and GenUKI. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see the Cornwall Towns & Parishes link on GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directory website.

OTHER:

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53
3. 1864/65

Wills:

1. An extract from the Will of Richard Trevill Esq, dated 1647, regarding bequests to the inhabitants of St. John, Maker and Rame parishes, copied from a St John Parish Register.
2. 17 May 1738, Richard SOPER (mariner)
3. 18 Nov 1746, Dinah SPRIDDLE
4. 25 May 1748, Margaret EATON

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 Rame Cornwall 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 John and Maker.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Rame is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page 374). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.
2. Heraldic Church Notes from Cornwall; containing the Heraldry and Genealogical Particulars on every Memorial in Ten Churches in the Deanery of East, by Arthur J. Jewers, F.S.A. Includes extracts from parish registers &c.