The parish of

ST STEPHEN IN BRANEL

is located near St. Austell, St. Mewan, and Luxulyan. Once a centre of mining, it is now mainly agricultural.

The Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for St Stephen-in-Brannel is Rita Bone Kopp, who can be contacted by Email. Rita's website contains much information.

 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), 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 and other resources for St Stephen in Brannel, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP), which is updated frequently. 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 such documents also name local J.P.s, Churchwardens and / or Overseers of the Poor.

1. dated 10 Sep 1737, naming James HARRIS, Thomas ROBERTS and John PARSONS of this parish.
2. dated 11 Jun 1795, naming Stephen MAYNARD and John MAYNARD of this parish.
3. dated 22 Sep 1818, naming Francis and John HONEY of this Parish.

Indentures and Other Legal Documents:

1. An Indenture, dated 4 Nov 1773, naming Thomas TRUSCOTT of this parish.

Settlement Papers:

1. 5 May 1704, Isaac Morten & family
2. 23 Apr 1728, Francis TRUSCOTT & family
3. 2 Jan 1827, Robert PELANRICK & family

Voters Lists:

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

Wills:

1. Wylliam STOATTE, dated 11 May 1610
2. Antony VIAN (intestate), bond and inventory dated 19 Jan 1686
3. John HOOPER (intestate), bond and inventory dated 22 Nov 1698
4. Joanna HOOPER, dated 23 Nov 1701
5. Peter BODY, dated 26 May 1790
6. John HOOPER, dated 22 Apr 1803
7. Benjamin HOOPER, dated 26 Apr 1805
8. William BODY, dated 6 Jan 1817
9. John HOOPER, dated 22 May 1824
10. Richard HOOPER, dated 13 Jun 1851

For further 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 St Stephen in Brannel 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:

Ladock, St Enoder, St Dennis, Roche, St Austell, St Mewan, St Ewe, Creed and Probus.

ONLINE BOOKS:

St Stephen in Brannel 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 448). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.