Godolphin

• Note in front of Parish Burial register for St John Baptist, Godolphin, reads as follows:
  N.B. New Churchyard consecrated Dec 4 1889 by Bishop Speecliley Commissary for Bishop of Truro. Old Churchyard closed Dec 31 1889 by order in Council. 1st Burial in new Churchyard Jan 10 1890.
  S. Rundle
  Vicar of Godolphin
  Rural Dean of Kerrier.
• Besides the parish churchyard, there is another cemetery in Godolphin Cross, which might be the new one referred to above.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 559 entries.

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 information for Godolphin in 1841 can be found under Breage.
• 1851.
  • The 1851 Census of Godolphin (HO107/1913), Enumeration Districts 1b to 1e, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
  • The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have compiled separate surname indexes of the 1851 Census for each Cornish registration district; Godolphin 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.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Godolphin (RG9/1574), Enumeration Districts 1 to 5, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Godolphin (RG10/2307), Enumeration Districts 1 to 5, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Godolphin (RG11/2326), Enumeration Districts 1 to 5, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Godolphin (RG12/1842), Enumeration Districts 1 to 4, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. There was formerly a chapel at Godolphin which was dedicated to the Virgin Mary of which there are now no remains.
  Godolphin District was gazetted on 6th February 1846, and the present church was built in 1851. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW6031 and was dedicated to St John the Baptist. The building is buttressed on the square; it is built of stone with granite facings in the gothic style and it comprised a chancel nave, and north aisle and vestry. The bell turret on the west gable, is pierced for two bells. The registers date from 1851.
  The church building is no longer in use, and is now closed. Details about the plans of this church (ICBS) are available on-line.
• Non-Conformists. There was formerly a Bible Christian chapel here of which there are now no remains. A Meeting House was built in 1832 at Ruth Dower, close to the centre of Godolphin. In 1842 a much larger place was built in the centre of the village; in 1859 this chapel was demolished and an even larger one was built on the site.
  Godolphin Methodist Church still (in 2008) worships every Sunday. It was a Bible Christian (BC) chapel, originally known as Herland Cross; the old BC part of it contains one of the rare Bible Christian Missionary Society memorial plaques. It became part of the Unted Methodist (UM) Church in 1907. The UMs became part of the Methodist Church in 1932 along with the Wesleyans and the Primitive Methodists.

• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1846 - 1897, Burials 1851 - 1926, Marriages 1851 - 1982.
• Baptisms.
  • Baptisms 1846 to 1901 (unfortunately, some are illegible) for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The OPC has transcribed baptisms at Godolphin. These can be searched as follows:
    • 1846 to 1897. by Year, or by Surname.
    • 1898 to 1906. by Year or by Surname.
  • Baptisms 1846 to 1901 for this parish are also available on-line through the OPC Search Facility - (C-PROP).
• Banns.
  • Banns 1868 to 1910 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC Search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The OPC has transcribed banns from 1868 to 1906. These can be searched:
    • by year
    • Bridegroom.
    • Bride.
• Marriages. None.
• Burials.
  • Burials 1851 to 1911 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC Search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The OPC has transcribed burials at Godolphin as follows:
    • 1851 to 1887. These can be searched:
      • by Year.
      • by Surname.
    • 1888 to 1906. These can be searched:
      • by Year.
      • by Surname.

Researchers should also look at available records for Breage, under which many events in Godolphin were originally recorded.

The parish of Godolphin was created from Breage which was originally in the Helston Registration District; there were sub-districts at Breage, Crowan, Helston, St Keverne and Wendron. It is now in the Kerrier Registration District.

The address of the Registration Office is: The Willows, Church Street, Helston, TR13 8NJ.
Tel: 01326 562848.

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• Directories as below
  • Post Office Directory 1873 - Godolphin.
  • Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1883, Page 883 - GODOLPHIN.
  • Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1889, Page 1003-1004 - GODOLPHIN.
  • Kelly's Directory of Devon & Cornwall 1893, Page 1113 - GODOLPHIN.
  • Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1897, Page 113 - GODOLPHIN.
  • Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1902, Page 119 - GODOLPHIN.
  • Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1906, Page 122 - GODOLPHIN.
  • Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1914, Page 132-133 - GODOLPHIN.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Godolphin 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 for Godolphin has produced a family history website for the parish.

• Map of the Kerrier Registration District in which the parish lies.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW608314 (Lat/Lon: 50.13421, -5.34914), Godolphin 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.

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

Godolphin parish was part of the Helston Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

Godolphin parish was formed in 1846 from Breage parish. Population figures before this date are with Breage.

The parish comprised 0000 acres of land.