Botus Fleming, Cornwall Family History Guide

Botus Fleming is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cornwall.

Alternative names: Botusfleming

Parish church: St Mary the Virgin

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1548
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BOTUS-FLEMING, a parish in St. Germans district, Cornwall; near the Hamoaze, 2 miles NW of Saltash r. station. Post Town, Saltash, Cornwall. Acres, 1,138. Real property, £1,329. Pop., 237. Houses, 49. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Flemings of Stoke-Fleming. The living s a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £230. Patron, not reported. The church is good.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Botusfleming. 2 miles N. Saltash. P. 250

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BOTUS-FLEMING, a parish, in the union of St. Germans, S. division of the hundred of East, E. division of Cornwall, 3 miles (N. W.) from Saltash; containing 250 inhabitants. The parish comprises 937 acres, of which 21 are common or waste. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £16. 15. 7½.; net income, £190; patrons, the family of Spry. In the centre of a field, on the northern side of the village, stands a pyramidal monument erected to the memory of Dr. William Martin, of Plymouth, who died in 1762.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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Postal Directory of Twenty Parishes in East Cornwall 1901

BOTUSFLEMING.

THIS is a small village and parish situate 3 miles north-west of Saltash, and 6 south of Callington, and is bounded on the east by Landulph and the River Tamar, on the south by St. Stephens-by-Saltash, on the west by Landrake, and on the north by Pillaton. The Churchtown is situate in a deep hollow.

The parish is very romantic, and comprises hills, valleys, rich meadow and arable land, and is very productive of fruit. Its particular commodity is market gardening.

The living is a Rectory, net annual value £189, with residence and 60 acres of glebe land, in the incumbency of the Rev. T. Fraser Fulton, since 1897. The Wesleyans have a Chapel and Sunday School, and there is a National School (mixed), for 36 children ; average attendance about 30 ; supported in part by the rector and landowners of the parish ; Miss Harriet Alice Poole, mistress.

The principal landowners in the parish are Lady Symons and Michael Loam, Esq.

POST and T. O. Hatt R. S. O. (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R. S. O. Cornwall added). — John Edgcumbe, postmaster. Letters received at 5-15 a m., and 6-15 p m. ; despatched at 7-20 p.m. The nearest money order office is at St. Mellion. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.

Wall Post Box, Botusfleming, cleared at 6-30 p.m.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Broad, Mr., Bonney’s House

Fulton Rev., Thomas Fraser, Rectory

Loam, Michael, Esq., Moditonham

Symons, Lady, Hatt House

COMMERCIAL.

Bromley, William, market gardener

Edgcombe, .lohn, Postmaster, Hatt

Wright, William, market gardener

FARMERS.

Barrett, James, Holland Inn

Batten, John, Bicton

Batten, Richard, Bicton

Batten, Rowse Richard, Bicton

Blatchford, Thomas, Hatt

Bolitho, Gilbert, Marraborough

Came, Samuel, Villaton

Came, Mrs., Popham

Pawley, J.J. & R. F., Cross Farm

Prideaux, Thomas, Westown

Prideaux, William, Moditon

Prideaux, Richard, Westown

Prideaux. Arnold, Cross Park

Renfree, Stephen, Mutton Mill

Stephens, George, Swiftaford

Summerfield, Austin, Botusfleming

Summerfield, John, Botusfleming

Summerfield, Samuel, Moditonham

Summerfield, William, Churchtown

Townsend, Walter. Botusfleming

Townsend, John, Four Shilling Park

Source: An illustrated postal directory with map and historical notices, of twenty parishes in East Cornwall, for the new century. From A.D. 449 to 1901 by Venning, James; Birkbeck, J. Publication date 1901.

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Administration

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