Southwark St Stephen, Surrey Genealogy, England
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 | |
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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 | |
Contents
Parish History
Southwark, parlimentary borough, Surrey, on river Thames, opposite London city.[1]
Borough Of Southwark. (In the Diocese of Winchester).[2]
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.
Non Conformist Churches
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.
Websites
References
- ↑ John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887. Adapted. Date accessed: 18 February 2014.
- ↑ London Eccesiastical jurisdiction. A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 18 February 2014.
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