Kennington St Mark, Surrey Genealogy

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

Parish History
Kennington.-- eccl. dists. (St James, St John, and St Mark), Lambeth par., Surrey, forming a S. suburb of London - pop., St James, 6395; St Mark, 13,951; St John (partly in Camberwell par.), 9394. See Kennington Division.

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
Baptisms 1825-1875 and

Marriages 1826-1839

Burials 1825-1842 are indexed in Greater London Burials (£)

Poor Law Unions
Lambeth Poor Law Union

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.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * St Mark's Kennington (official website). History, visitor directions, church schedule.