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Bowles of Cornwall
The Bole family in this area goes back to the
We get a more consistent record of the family
once parish churches started recording their events in registries in
1557. There are Bole entries in the Pillaton register almost every
year from 1558 to 1575 with a next generation recorded from 1597 to
1624, a next from 1643 and on with more Boles in the nearby parishes of
St Mellion and St Stephens near Saltash.
Of particular interest would be Roger Bole of
Saltash who had interests in the Diocese of Cork and Ross in Ireland
which were passed to his young son William in 1614
possibly
making his line the origin of The Boles of
Cork who appear there sometime in the 1630's.
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