Bermondsey St Mary Magdalen, Surrey Genealogy

England   Surrey   Surrey Parishes

View a List of District Churches and Chapels Within St Mary Bermondsey Parish.

Parish History
BERMONDSEY St. Mary Magdalene, a parish and union, in the borough of Southwark, east division of the hundred of Brixton and of Surrey, 1½ mile south by southeast of London.

A district church, dedicated to St James, was completed in 1828. A church district named Christchurch built in 1845, and one named St. Paul's in 1846: A church in 1847.

There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans; and a handsome and spacious Roman Catholic chapel erected in 1834.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
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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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