Brixton St Matthew, Surrey Genealogy

Guide to Brixton St Matthew, Surrey ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BRIXTON, an ecclesiastical district, in the parish and union of Lambeth, E. division of the hundred of Brixton and of the county of Surrey, 4½ miles (S. S. W.) from London. Later, in 1846, the old St Matthew Chapel was replaced by a new chapel called St Matthew Denmark Hill.

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.

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Church Records
The Church of England chapels existing prior to 1900 in Brixton Township included:


 * Brixton Christ Church Brixton Rd - 1855
 * Brixton St Catherine (Mission Church) - 1877
 * Brixton St John the Evangelist - 1853
 * Brixton St Jude, East Brixton - 1868
 * Brixton St Matthew - 1825
 * Brixton St Matthew Denmark Hill - 1846 (replaced the old St Matt. Chapel)
 * Brixton St Paul Santley St - 1881
 * Brixton St Saviour, Brixton Hill - 1875

Baptisms 1825-1845

Marriages 1825-1837 findmypast

Burials 1825-1889 Greater London Burials (£)

Brixton Hill Union Poor Law Union Burials 1834-1837 are included in the National Burial Index.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Poor Law Unions
Lambeth Poor Law Union

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
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