St Stephen in Brannel Cornwall Family History Guide

St Stephen in Brannel is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.

Other places in the parish include: Coombe and Nanpean.

Alternative names:

• St Stephens in Brannel
• St Stephens in Branwell

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1694
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• St Enoder
• Roche
• St Mewan
• Probus
• Creed
• St Dennis
• Ladock
• Mevagissey
• Treverbyn
• St Ewe

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STEPHENS (St.)-in-Brannel, a parish in St. Austell district, Cornwall; 1½ mile NW of Burngullow r. station, and 4¼ W by N of St. Austell. It has a post-office under St. Austell. Acres, 9,002. Real property, £15,496; of which £3,348 are in mines, £3,286 in quarries, £449 in iron-works, and £797 in railways. Pop. in 1851, 2,711; in 1861, 3,045. Houses, 562. The manor was known at Domesday as Bernel, and belonged then to the Earl of Mortaigne. Large quantities of fine china-stone and porcelain-earth are sent hence to Staffordshire. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £780. Patron, the Hon. G. M. Fortesene. The church is Norman, with a detached tower. There are national schools and four alms-houses.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Bankrupts

People declared bankrupt and the date of bankruptcy.

Parish Records

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Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

• County: Cornwall
• Civil Registration District: St Austell
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall
• Diocese: Exeter
• Rural Deanery: Powder
• Poor Law Union: St Austell
• Hundred: Powder
• Province: Canterbury