The parish of

ROCHE

Roche Rock, © Charles Winpenny	Roche Rock, © Charles Winpenny

The Online Parish Clerk for Roche is Arthur Wilkins, who can be contacted by Email.

Visit my website for more information - Arthur.

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:

Bastardy/Filiation Documents:

 Many of the documents listed below also name local J.P.s, Churchwardens and / or Overseers of the Poor.

1. A Bond, dated 13 Sep 1778, naming Frances WILLIAMS of this Parish.
2. A Bond, dated 9 Dec 1792, naming Mary RETALLICK and James HOSKIN.
3. A Bond, dated 18 Apr 1808, naming Elizabeth COCK, Widow, and William KNIGHT. Also included are details of the Will of James KNIGHT, father of William.
4. A Bond, dated 5 Oct 1813, naming Jane BROKENSHIRE and Henry and Samuel BRENTON (all of St Wenn) concerning a child chargeable to the Parish of Roach (Roche).
5. A Bond, dated 22 Sep 1818, naming Elizabeth WEDLAKE of this Parish.
6. An Order, dated 12 May 1828, for the apprehending of Joseph ROACH, also naming Elizabeth TELLAM.

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53
3. 1856/57
4. 1864/65

Wills:

1. dated 6 Jan 1718, William MOCK

A Promise of Payment, dated 23 Feb 1767, by William SOLOMON of Little Cullen to John PHILLIPS. (Further details unknown, but filmed by the LDS amongst indentures for Roche.)

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Roche can be located at coordinates G - 5.

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 Dennis, St Columb Major, St Wenn, Withiel, Lanivet, Luxulyan, St Austell and St Stephen in Brannel.

ONLINE BOOKS:

1. Roche 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 390). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.
2. The Cornwall Register by John Wallis, A.M. F.S.S., then Vicar of Bodmin, printed 1847. If the in-built search produces no results, use the index pages (474-476) to find your parish of interest. Tables of statistics and other data can be found at the beginning of the book, starting at page n9.