Bradoc or Braddock, Cornwall Family History Guide

Bradoc is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.

Alternative names: Braddock, Bradock, Broadoak

Other places in the parish include: West Taphouse.

Status: Ancient Parish

Parish church: St Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1555
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1611

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BROADOAK, or Bradock, a parish in Liskeard district, Cornwall; 2 miles SSW of Doublebois r. station, and 4 NE by E of Lostwithiel. It includes West Taphouse hamlet; and its Post Town is Lostwithiel. Acres, 3,367. Real property, £1,464. Pop., 274. Houses, 54. The property is divided among a few. The manor was held, at Domesday, by Robert, Earl of Mortaigne. Broadoak-down was the scene of the defeat, in 1643, of the parliamentarians under Ruthven by the royalists under Hopton. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Boconnoc, in the diocese of Exeter. The church is good, and has an ancient font.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BROADOAK (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Liskeard, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 6¾ miles (W. S. W.) from Liskeard; containing 303 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, consolidated, in 1742, with the rectory of Boconnoc (which see), and valued in the king’s books at £8. 13. 4. The church contains a handsome font.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

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England, Cornwall, Bradock

England, Cornwall, Broadoak – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Broadoak, 1841-1891

Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cornwall, Broadoak – Church records ( 7 )
Bradoc (Broadoak) : baptisms 1700-1865, marriages 1700-1836
Author: Drake, P. T. (Pam T.)

England, Cornwall, Braddock, bishop’s transcripts, 1813-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Broadoak (Cornwall); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

England, Cornwall, Bradock and Boconnoc, bishop’s transcripts, 1596-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Broadoak (Cornwall); Church of England. Parish Church of Boconnoc (Cornwall); Devon Record Office (Exeter)

Marriages performed at the parish church of Bradoc (Cornwall), 1600-1837
Author: Jago, Robert S.; Church of England. Parish Church of Broadoak (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office

Parish chest materials, 1664-1861
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Broadoak (Cornwall)

Parish register transcripts, 1578-1850
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Broadoak (Cornwall)

Parish registers for Broadoak, 1839-1980
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Broadoak (Cornwall); Cornwall Record Office

England, Cornwall, Broadoak – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Parish of Braddock
Author: Ivall, Dennis Endean; Thompson, Gillian; Ivall, Dennis Endean, Mrs.

Parish register printouts of Broadoak, Cornwall, England ; christenings, 1578-1850
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Broadoak, Cornwall, England ; marriages, 1600-1850
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Cornwall, Broadoak – Manors ( 1 )
Manorial documents, 1442-1578
Author: Manor of Braddock (Cornwall)

England, Cornwall, Broadoak – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1664-1837
Author: Broadoak (Cornwall)

Cornwall

England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010

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Administration

  • County: Cornwall
  • Civil Registration District: Liskeard
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1848 – None, Post-1847 – West
  • Poor Law Union: Liskeard
  • Hundred: West (Cornwall)
  • Province: Canterbury