Battersea St Mary, Surrey Genealogy

England   Surrey   Surrey Parishes

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

Parish History
BATTERSEA (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wandsworth and Clapham, partly in the E., but chiefly in the W., division of the hundred of Brixton, E. division of Surrey, 3 miles (S.) from London. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.

Church records
Battersea **St Mary ancient parish had numerous additional Church of England chapels constructed within its boundary prior to 1900, each holding their own registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. These included but may not be limited to the following ones:


 * All Sts, Prince of Wales Dr, Battersea Prk - 1883
 * Caius House, Harroway Rd, - 1891
 * Ascension, Lavender Hill - 1875
 * Christchurch - 1861
 * St Aldwin‘s Mission Chapel, Poyntz Rd - 1880
 * St Andrew, Stockdale Rd - 1886
 * St Bartholomew, Wickersley Road - 1889
 * St George the Martyr, Patmore Street - 1853
 * St James‘s Mission, Nine Elms, Battersea - 1882
 * St John, Usk Rd, Battersea - 1863
 * St Luke's Ramsden Road - 1875
 * St Mark Battersea Rise - 1868 *
 * St Mary w/ St. Luke &amp; St. Matthew - 1539**
 * St Mary Le Park, Albert Bridge Rd, - 1883
 * St Matthew, Lavender Hill - 1877
 * St Matthew‘s Mission, Nine Elms Lane Battersea - 1853
 * St Michael Wandsworth Common - 1881
 * St Paul, St John‘s Hill, Battersea - 1869
 * St Peter Plough Road - 1874
 * St Philip, Queenstown Rd - 1869
 * St Saviour, Battersea

Online Records
Battersea St John parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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.

Census records
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Poor Law Unions
Wandsworth and Clapham Poor Law Union,Surrey

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.

Cemetery
(14+ entries)

Here is a Comprehensive List of Chapels and District Churches in the Civil Parish of St Mary Battersea in the year 1900.

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