The parish of

ROCHE

The Parish Church © John Evans
More photographs at bottom of page

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Roche is Arthur Wilkins, who can be contacted by Email and who maintains a website.

For enquiries about transcriptions linking from this page, and those in our database, please contact John Evans.

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.
 
Pre-1710 Registers are damaged. Details about those, plus a list of Rectors and Patrons can be found here. The transcripts of baptisms, marriages and burials are in our online database.

DIRECTORIES:

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

OTHER:

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

Apprenticeship Indentures:

Bastardy/Filiation Documents:

1. dated 13 Sep 1778, naming Frances WILLIAMS of this Parish.
2. dated 9 Dec 1792, naming Mary RETALLICK and James HOSKIN.
3. dated 18 Apr 1808, Bond naming Elizabeth COCK, Widow, and William KNIGHT. Also included are some details of the Will of James KNIGHT, father of William
4. 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
5. dated 22 Sep 1818, naming Elizabeth WEDLAKE of this parish & Francis HONEY of St Stephen in Branwell
6. dated 12 May 1828, Warrant for apprehending Joseph ROACH, also naming Elizabeth TELLAM

Indentures & Other Documents:

1. 23 Feb 1767, a Promise of Payment, by William SOLOMON of Little Cullen to John PHILLIPS. (Further details unknown, but filmed by the LDS amongst indentures for Roche.)
2. 5 Mar 1779, involving John PADDY & Joseph ALLEN

Settlement Papers:

Voters Lists:

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

Wills:

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 Roche 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 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.
3. Phillimore's Marriages Vol XVII transcripts including Roche (transcribed and in our database).

PHOTOGRAPHS:

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The former chapel at Tremodrett © John Evans	The former chapel at Trezaise © John Evans	Roche Chapel © John Evans	Base of War Memorial © John Evans
Roche Cemetery, Older Section © John Evans	Roche Cemetery, Newer Section © John Evans	Roche Rock © Charles Winpenny