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The parish of

ST STEPHEN IN BRANNEL

St Stephen in Brannel
 

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

Cornwall Online Parish Clerks

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.

School Admissions:

  1908 on, Infant School 1906 - 1922, Churchtown School*
  * later look-ups available from John Evans.

Settlement Papers:

  5 May 1704, Isaac Morten & family (& St Breock) 2 Dec 1799, Mary KNIGHT (& Probus)
  23 Apr 1728, Francis TRUSCOTT & family (& St Breock) 2 Jan 1827, Robert PELANRICK & family (& Perranarworthal)
  22 Nov 1756, Mary WHETTER & children (& Probus)  

Voters Lists:

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

Wills:

11 May 1610, Wylliam STOATTE 5 Mar 1746, John HARRIS
  19 Jan 1686, Antony VIAN (intestate) 26 May 1790, Peter BODY
22 Nov 1698, John HOOPER (intestate) 22 Apr 1803, John HOOPER
  23 Nov 1701, Joanna HOOPER 26 Apr 1805, Benjamin HOOPER
  23 Oct1731, John WISE 6 Jan 1817, William BODY
  31 Oct 1741, Isabell HICKS 22 May 1824, John HOOPER
  17 Mar 1745, Joseph ROWE 13 Jun 1851, Richard HOOPER

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.

WAR MEMORIAL:

At Nanpean
Click thumbnails to enlarge

© John Evans

ADJACENT PARISHES:

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

ONLINE BOOKS:

  1. 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.
  2. Phillimore's Marriages Vol X transcripts including St Stephen in Brannel (transcribed and in our database)