POST OFFICE CORNWALL DIRECTORY 1856

Page 11 BREAGE

(Transcription by Althea Johnson. Check originals for confirmation)

 

Breage is a township, parish, and town, in Kerrier Hundred, Helston Union, Cornwall archdeaconry, Exeter bishopric, West Cornwall. The town, which is near Helston, is chiefly supported by mining; but in 1851, the population was not so large as in the previous 20 years, mining not being so active.  The population in 1851, was 4,543 inhabitants, and the area 7,161 acres, including 105 acres of water.  There is a church, and a chapel for Bible Christians.  The living is a vicarage, with Germoe, Cury and Gunwalloe annexed; annual value £760, in the gift of the crown.

ASHTOWN is a small village.

GODOLPHIN is a village and ecclesiastical district, constituted in 1846; it is in Breage township and parish, Kerrier Hundred, Helston Union, Cornwall Archdeaconry, Exeter bishopric, West Cornwall.  Here is a church.  The population, in 1851, was 1,788.  The population are chiefly engaged in mining.

Letters through Helston, which is also the nearest money order office.

 

Moxley Rev. James

Bible Christian

Oats Capt. William

 

 

 

TRADERS

 

Adams Nicholas

Wheelwright

Andrews Ursula (Mrs)

Shopkeeper

Arthur John

Star Inn

Arthur John

Smith

Bear Charlotte (Mrs)

Temperance Hotel & Shopkeeper

Bennetts John

Wheelwright

Bennetts Paul

Shopkeeper

Burgess Henry

Baker & Shoemaker

Eva John

‘Queens Arms’

George John

Butcher

Hammill James

Wheelwright

Johns Joannah (Miss)

Grocer & Draper

Johns Thomas Henry

Farmer

Johns William

Grocer & Draper

King Robert

Shopkeeper, Ashtown

Kitto William

Mason & Shopkeeper

Lambrey William

Farmer

Lyne Hannibal

Farmer, New Town

Martyn Thomas

Grocer & Draper

Matthews William S.

Farmer

Mitchell Thomas

Farmer

Nicholas Henry

Carpenter

Riddington John James

Carpenter

Rowe John

Farmer, Sethnoe

Simpson Wm

Draper & Grocer, Ashtown

Symons Edwin

Tailor & Mercer

Tregoning Richard

Shoemaker

Tregoning Sophia (Mrs)

Postmistress

Trounce & Williams

Grocers

Truscott Edmnd.

‘Lion & Lamb’, Ashtwn

Vivian Captain John

Agent to Wheal Ellen & Trevennen mine

Williams Henry

Shopkeeper