Southwark St Stephen, Surrey Genealogy, England

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Southwark St Stephen

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

Southwark St Stephen, Surrey , England
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Southwark
County	Surrey
Poor Law Union	Southwark St George the Martyr
Registration District	St George Southwark
Records begin
Parish registers: 1850
Bishop's Transcripts: None
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	None
Diocese	Pre-1846 - Winchester; Post-1845 - London
Province	Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Pre-1846 - Court of the Archdeaconry of Surrey; Post-1845 - Court of the Bishop of London (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Surrey Record Office

Parish History

Southwark, parlimentary borough, Surrey, on river Thames, opposite London city.

Borough Of Southwark. (In the Diocese of Winchester).

Additional information:

St Stephen Southwark was created as a district church for St George the Martyr civil parish and began in the year 1840.

Resources

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

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

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

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

References

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