The parish of Boconnoc lies about five miles east of Lostwithiel, south of the road from there to Liskeard. Boconnoc is a compound Cornish name and might mean "Dwelling place of Conoc". It was listed in the Domesday Book. The church is at Boconnoc House; nowadays, the parish is served by the church of the adjoining parish, Broadoak.
The House has a long history and was occupied by various families, including that of James Pitt, who bought the estate by selling a very large diamond to the French. It ended up on Napoleon's sword hilt, where it didn't do him much good! During the Second World War the estate was a vast American ammo dump.
The volunteer as Online Parish Clerk for Boconnoc will be available to do look-ups soon.
Information can be found at COCP - the Cornwall Online Census Project - which is almost complete for 1841 to 1891 and has been verified, FreeCen at Rootsweb, which has a very good search engine and information from COCP, as well as GenUKI, which has more reference information and alternate resources.
For Parish Register information, please see our searchable database (C-PROP) which contains full transcriptions, GenUKI (link below) and the LDS website - Library section.
For information, see GenUKI. Link below.
For information regarding History, Population, and much more, visit GenUKI.
For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Boconnoc can be located at coordinates I - 5.
For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).
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