Southwark Holy Trinity, Surrey Genealogy

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

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

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

Additional information:

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). 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.

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Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Surrey ($)
 * Genealogist Parish Registers - Surrey ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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

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

Websites
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