Beddington, Surrey Genealogy

England   Surrey   Surrey Parishes   Beddington

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
'BEDDINGTON St Mary, a parish [parish registers from 1538], in the union of Croydon, Second division of the hundred of Wallington, east division of Surrey, 1½ mile west of Croydon. It also comprised the Hamlet of Wallington with its own district church built in 1867.'

Some additional later churches built in this ancient parish include:


 * Holy Trinity Wallington - 1867
 * St Michael (Bandon Hill), South Beddington - 1871

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain