Brixton St Matthew, Surrey Genealogy

England   Surrey   Surrey Parishes



Parish History
BRIXTON, an ecclesiastical district, in the parish and union of Lambeth, E. division of the hundred of Brixton and of the county of Surrey, 4½ miles (S. S. W.) from London. Later, in 1846, the old St Matthew Chapel was replaced by a new chapel called St Matthew Denmark Hill.

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
The Church of England chapels existing prior to 1900 in Brixton Township included:


 * Brixton Christ Church Brixton Rd - 1855
 * Brixton St Catherine (Mission Church) - 1877
 * Brixton St John the Evangelist - 1853
 * Brixton St Jude, East Brixton - 1868
 * Brixton St Matthew - 1825
 * Brixton St Matthew Denmark Hill - 1846 (replaced the old St Matt. Chapel)
 * Brixton St Paul Santley St - 1881
 * Brixton St Saviour, Brixton Hill - 1875

Baptisms 1825-1845

Marriages 1825-1837 BritishOrigins

Burials 1825-1889 Greater London Burials (£)

Brixton Hill Union Poor Law Union Burials 1834-1837 are included in the National Burial Index.

Census records
FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions. to locate local Family History Centres in UK to locate outside UK. Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

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

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. 

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain