Breage

• The OPC has listed references to Breage records on the ACCESS to ARCHIVES (A2A) site.

• A book entitled Story of an Ancient Parish - Breage with Germoe, Index & Chapter 8, is available on-line.

• The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 1838 entries.
• War Memorial inscriptions for Breage parish (1914-1918 and 1939-1945 Wars) are separately available.

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1901) is held in the Cornwall Record Office. The Cornwall Family History Society offers a census search service for its members.

Specific census information for this parish is available as follows:

• 1841 Census.
  • The 1841 Census of Breage (HO107/136) is also available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
    • Enumeration Districts 1 to 5.
    • Enumeration Districts 6 to 11 [including Workhouses].
  • A separate record of the 1841 Census of Breage is also available.
  • The Census has also has been filmed by the LDS church - Film No. 241260.
• 1851 Census.
  • The 1851 Census of Breage (HO107/1913) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
    • Enumeration Districts 1a and 1f.
    • Enumeration Districts 1g, 1h, 1k and 1l.
  • Part of the 1851 Census of Breage is available from the West-Penwith resources as part of the 1851 British Census 2% sample - Cornwall.
  • For persons recorded in the 1851 Census as having been born in Breage but living in other parishes, see under Genealogy Strays.
  • The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have compiled separate surname indexes of the 1851 Census for each Cornish registration district; Breage is listed in Volume 33. The booklets are available in Cornwall at the Cornwall Centre, (formerly known as the Cornish Studies Library), and is also available in the Cornwall FHS Library.
  • Names appearing in the 1851 Census of Breage are available on-line courtesy of the OPC.
• 1861 Census. The 1861 Census of Breage (RG9/1574) is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • Enumeration Districts 6 to 8.
  • Enumeration Districts 9 and 10.
• 1871 Census. The 1871 Census of Breage is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • RG10/2307. Enumeration District 6.
  • RG10/2308. Enumeration Districts 7 to 10.
• 1881 Census. The 1881 Census of Breage (RG11/2326), Enumeration Districts 6 to 10, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891 Census.
  • The 1891 Census of Breage (RG12/1842) is also available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project, as follows:
    • Enumeration Districts 5 and 6.
    • Enumeration Districts 7 to 9.

• Anglican. The parish Church is located in OS Grid Square SW6128 and was dedicated to St Breaca in 1130. The church boasts one of the most remarkable wall paintings belonging to a style which has been labelled "Christ as Piers Plowman". It depicts a crowned near naked and wounded figure of Christ surrounded by the tools of husbandry, fishing, cloth and metal-working trades. In the many wounds is, perhaps, a message about man's sins and the continuing Passion of Christ.
  Breage has a fine 15th century Church; it stands on a hill with views across to the sea. It comprises a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, and north and south transepts. The arcades are each of seven semi-circular arches and pillars of granite. The north transept has a flat massive roof of oak, with well-carved bosses. This was the burial place of Margaret, the wife of Sidney, first Earl of Godolphin, and daughter of Col. Thomas Blague. The tall tower is embattled with pinnacles at each corner. The porch is of granite, inside the nave and aisles with carved beams give a feeling of space. A large carved walnut reredos hangs on the east wall of the chancel.
• Non-Conformist. There were chapels in Breage belonging to the Wesleyan Methodists, Bible Christians, and the Methodist New Connexion.
  Some Bible Christian Magazine Transcripts 1841 & 42 are on-line, courtesy of the OPC. These include some obituaries for Breage.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Breage are: C053321/2, E015541, M015541/2, P015541, Bible Christian (Breage Circuit) C065021. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage of this parish is 1559 - 1875.
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1603 - 1918, Burials 1559 - 1966, Marriages 1559 - 1982, Boyd's Marriage Index 1559 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1800 - 1812, Non-Conformist records 1821 - 1837.
• Baptisms. Baptisms beginning with 1603 ending with 1700 are imperfect for the first six years, deficient in the years 1657-1678, deficient from 1683 to 1697, but regular from 1697 to 1700.
  • Church baptisms 1597 to 1718 and 1722 to 1902, together with Bible Christian baptisms 1821 to 1837 and Bishop' Transcripts (BTs) 1676 to 1684 and 1697 to 1724, are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - C-PROP.
  • Breage Bible Christian baptisms 1821 to 1837, Breage Trenwheal Wesleyan Methodist baptisms 1866 to 1901, ands Breage Wesleyan Methodist baptisms 1893 to 1900, are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

  • The OPC of Breage has transcribed registers in the non-conformist Breage Circuits:

    • Bible Christian Births & Baptisms 1821 to 1837. Parishes mentioned include: Breage, Crowan, Gwinear, Helston, Mullion, Porthleven, St Anthony, St Hilary, St Keverne, Sithney and Wendron. These can be searched on-line.
    • Praze Wesleyan Methodist baptisms 1893 to 1900 by Year or surname, are available on line.
    • Trenwheal Wesleyan Chapel, Breage Baptisms 1866 to 1906 by Year or Surname are available.
    • Nancegollan, Crowan Baptisms 1848 to 1899 By Year or By Surname, are also available.
    • Praze, Crowan, Wesleyan baptisms 1864 to 1883 by year or surname are available. Surname giving a Breage abode is NANKERVIS, but it's worth checking others.
    • PRAZE, Crowan Wesleyan Baptisms 1892 to 1902 By Year or by Surname, are also available.

    The non-Breage registers listed above are added here because of proximity and the number of Breage families present in register. Surnames giving a Breage abode include: Bennett, Carter, Faby/Fabey, Jacka, James, Jewell, Pheby, Rowe, Symons, Vingoe.

  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1724 to 1839 for this parish and these are available for purchase on Parish Chest.
  • The OPC has transcribed baptisms at Breage 1827 to 1901. These can be searched as follows:
    • 1827 to 1839. By Year or By Surname.
    • 1839 to 1849. By Year or By Surname.
    • 1850 to 1859. By Year or By Surname.
    • 1859 to 1867. By Year or By Surname.
    • 1868 to 1902. By Year or By Surname.
• Banns.
  • Banns 1823 to 1888 are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The OPC has transcribed on-line the following Banns for Breage parish, which can be searched by either gender:
    • Banns 1823 - 1841.
    • Banns 1841 - 1888.
• Marriages. Marriages from 1559 to 1650 both inclusive, deficient from thence to 1654, and deficient from 1656 to 1678. Irregular from 1678 to 1682, and again deficient to 1699.
  • Some additional marriages at Breage 1663 to 1672 are available on-line, courtesy of the OPC. At beginning of this register are the marriages, with this note "Marriages which do not occur in the Breage Register, (are) taken from the Bodmin Register by Mr Martin Furge of Falmouth".
  • Phillimore's Marriages at St Breage - 1559 to 1812 are also available on-line from UK Genealogy Archives.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Marriages 1559 to 1837, which is available in Book, CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
  • Phillimore's Marriages 1559 to 1812, and parish marriages 1663 to 1911, are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).

  • The OPC has transcribed marriages at Breage 1564 to 1900 as follows:

    Marriages 1564 to 1722 sorted by: Bridegroom. Bride. Marriages 1722 to 1754 sorted by: Bridegroom. Bride. Marriages & Banns 1754 to 1794 sorted by: Bridegroom. Bride. Marriages & Banns 1794 to 1812 sorted by: Bridegroom. Bride.

    Marriages 1813 to 1837 sorted by: Bridegroom. Bride. Marriages 1837 to 1848 sorted by: Bridegroom. Bride. Marriages 1848 to 1873 sorted by: Bridegroom. Bride. Marriages 1873 to 1900 sorted by: Bridegroom. Bride.

• Burials. Burials from 1559 to 1564 are deficient from thence to 1569 to 1641.
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Parish Burials 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book or CD formats.
  • Burials 1639 to 1936 are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The OPC has transcribed burials at Breage 1559 to 1915, as follows:
    • Bishop's Transcripts.
      • BT Burials for 1676.
      • BT Burials 1678 to 1717 by year or by surname.

    • Parish Registers.

      Burials 1559 - 1639 (1564 and 1568 are missing), sorted by: year or surname. Burials 1639 - 1643 and 1678 to 1717 sorted by: year or surname. Burials 1718 - 1721 sorted by year or surname. Burials 1722 - 1763 sorted by year or surname. Burials 1764 - 1812 sorted by year or surname. Burials 1813 - 1820 sorted by year or surname.

      Burials 1821 - 1836 sorted by year or surname. Burials 1836 - 1861 sorted by year or surname. Burials 1861 - 1879 sorted by year or surname. Burials 1880 - 1904 sorted by year or surname. Burials 1891 - 1904 at Breage (undertaken without Services).

• Other Non-Conformist Records. OPC Coverage of Non-Conformist records of this parish is available.

• The parish of Breage was originally in the Helston Registration District; there were sub-districts at Breage, Crowan, Helston, St Keverne and Wendron. It is in the Helston (now Kerrier) Registration District. Parishes in this registration district are: Breage, Crowan, Cury, Germoe, Gunwalloe, Grade, Helston, Landewednack, Manaccan, Mawgan-in-Meneage, Mullion, Ruan Major, Ruan Minor, St. Anthony-in-Meneage, St. Keverne, St. Martin-in-Meneage, Sithney, Wendron.
  
  The address of the Registration Office is: The Willows, Church Street, Helston, TR13 8NJ.
  Tel: 01326 562848.
• The OPC has transcribed the WIDOW's BOOK 1843 to 1912 (Cornwall Record Office: AD 894/1/2). This lists some personal details of Widows in Breage parish around the turn of the 19th/20th centuries.

• The story of an ancient parish, Breage with Germoe, with some account of its armigers, worthies and unworthies, smugglers and wreckers, its traditions and superstitions by H.R. Coulthard (Published 1913) is available on-line, courtesy of the Old Cornwall Society.

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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Breage to another place.

• OPC Assistance.
  • The On-line Parish Clerk (OPC) scheme operates a service to help family historians; the OPC page for this parish is available on-line, from where the OPC can be contacted by email.
  • The OPC has produced a family history website for the parish.
• Strays. Persons living in a parish but born elsewhere are known as "Strays".
  • Strays from Wendron who are buried in Breage Churchyard, are separately listed.
  • Some 1296 strays from the 1851 FreeCensus for people born BREAGE but residing in other Parishes have been listed by the OPC and are available on-line.

• The Domesday Settlements of Cornwall, a study undertaken by the Cornwall Branch of the Historical Association, has identified and located settlements listed in the Exeter and Exchequer Domesday Survey of AD 1086. The following places have been identified in Breage ecclesiastical parish:
  • Crawle (Carahoil, Cariorgel), Grid Reference 617311.
  • Methleigh (Matela, Matele, Mathela), Grid Reference 624464.
  • Rinsey (Rentis, Renti, Rentin), Grid Reference 594273.
  • Trescowe (Trescau, Trescav), Grid Reference 579310.

A Parochial History of Breage (PAROCHIAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL VOLUME 1, 1867. Pages 132 to 140 [S. BREOCK IN KIRRIER, OR BREAGE]) is available on-line.

• The Return of Owners of Land (around Breage) - 1873.

• Map of the Kerrier Registration District in which the parish lies.
• A copy of the 1841 Tithe map, taken from an earlier map believed to date back to the 1780's, is on-line.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW595296 (Lat/Lon: 50.117874, -5.365716), Breage which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• A list of surnames being researched in Breage, and email links to their researchers, are available on-line.

Newspaper extracts from THE WEST BRITON AND CORNWALL ADVERTISER (by Julia Symons Mosman and Rita Bone Kopp) relating to events in Breage are available on-line as follows:

• 1836 - 1839
• 1850.
• 1887.

• Information on Mines in Breage and Godolphin is available on-line.

• Breage parish was part of the Helston Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.
• Overseers' Accounts (1762 to 1772, 1775 to 1784, 1793 to 1813, 1806 to 1812) are available in the Cornwall Record Office.

The parish of Porthleven was created from parts of this parish and Sithney parish in 1846.

• Index of WILLS & ADMONS for BREAGE, CORNWALL 1660-1730

• A list of the Vicars and Curates of Breage parish 1147 to 1907 are available on-line.
• St Breaca Church, BREAGE - Seating Plan as at 12th May 1666 is available on-line.
• In the May of 1641 it was agreed and ordered that every Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords should make a protestation (declaration of loyalty) to the crown. The Protestation was printed and then distributed by the Members to their counties. The Protestation was to be made by everyone and the Rectors, Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, had to appear before the Justices of the Peace in their Hundred to make their protestation and, on returning to their parishes, any two of them were to witness the taking of the Protestation Oath by all males over the age of 18 years. All names were listed and anyone who refused was to be noted.
  
  The Protestation Returns of 1642 for Breage are available on-line.

The parish comprises 7257 acres of land, 9 acres of water and 121 acres of foreshore. The two parishes of Godolphin and Porthleven were created from parts of this parish in 1846.

Cornwall Subsidies in the reign of Henry VIII were a form of taxation. There were a number of subsidy rolls, although the main ones are those for each of 1524 and 1543, each listing my name those who were taxed. A man could be taxed on: Goods, Wages or Land; whichever had the biggest revenue. Any woman included in the rolls were widows. The process involved assessment by Assessors, then sub or petty collectors in each parish. This money was then passed to the High collectors, who would deliver the monies to the Exchequer. The OPC has placed those for Breage parish on line as follows:

• 1524 SUBSIDIES ROLL for BREKE (Breage).
• 1543 SUBSIDIES ROLL for SEYNT BRECKE (Breage).
• Those covering 1523, 1526 and 1545.