Southwark Holy Trinity, Surrey Genealogy

England  Surrey   Surrey Parishes  

Parish History
'Southwark Christ Church created by at least 1671, is one of five ancient parishes in this metropolitan borough, with three registration districts ('St Saviour, St Olave, and St George), in the county of Surrey. The borough lies on the south side of the River Thames, opposite the City of London; attached with the city by the London, Southwark, and Blackfriars bridges;

'The five ancient parishes of Southwark include Christ Church, St Olave, St Saviour, St Thomas, and St George-the-Martyr.

The ecclesiastical arrangement for Southwark included also the following chapelries:


 * All Hallow, Copperfield St - 1875
 * St Jude - 1850
 * St Mary Magdalen - 1843
 * St Michael - 1867
 * St Paul Westminster Road.- 1858
 * St Peter - 1846
 * St Stephen - 1850
 * St Alphege - 1872
 * Wilberforce Mission Church -

The places of worship within the new borough, which includes the parish incumbencies of Horsley-Down, Bermondsey, and Rotherhithe. Included in the borough are the following Nonconformist churches:


 * English Presbyterian Church - 1
 * Independents - 1
 * Baptists - 15
 * Quakers - 1
 * Unitarians - 1
 * Wesleyan Methodists - 7
 * Primitive Methodists - 1
 * Wesleyan Association - 3
 * Wesleyan Reformers - 1
 * Welsh Calvinistic Methodists - 1
 * Roman Catholics -3

There were four additional unspecified dissenting chapels in the borough as well.

Southwark Holy Trinity, Surrey family history and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers (baptisms, christenings, marriages, and burials), civil registration (births, marriages, and deaths), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and website resources.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Surrey Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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