Rotherhithe St Mary, Surrey Genealogy

England   Surrey   Surrey Parishes   Rotherhithe St Mary

Church records
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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.

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.

Parish History
ROTHERHITHE St Mary, a parish, in the E. division of the hundred of Brixton and of the county of Surrey, 1 mile southeast of London. This place, corruptly called Redriff, was anciently a village and marsh south-eastward of London

The location of Rotherhithe, on the river, attracted merchant maritime seamen, watermen and others, to reside here; and its inhabitants are now almost exclusively engaged in pursuits connected with shipping, dockyards, shipmasters, shipbuilding (especially) East India ships and small merchant-vessels; also some boat and lighter builders' wharfs, and numerous warehouses for rigging and victualling the navy.

The present parochial church was erected in 1715 and has a churchyard. Additionally, there are three district churches built including the church of the Holy Trinity, Trinity Street (1838); Christ Church, erected in Paradise Row dedicated to All Saints, situated on the lower Deptford Road consecrated June, 1840. An Episcopal floating chapel is maintained for the use of seamen.

There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyan Methodists.

Here is a Comprehensive List of Chapels and District Churches within Rotherhithe St Mary.


 * Beck, Edward Josselyn. Memorials to Serve for a History of the Parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907. Digital version at Google Books.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites

 * St Mary's Rotherhithe (official website). Rotherhithe history, history of the Pilgrim Fathers, photographs, visitor directions, service times.