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.

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 a transcription of the Will of William MOCK, dated 6 Jan 1718, click here.

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:

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.