POST OFFICE CORNWALL DIRECTORY 1856
Page 11 BREAGE
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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 |
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TRADERS |
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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 |