Bermondsey Christ Church, Surrey Genealogy

Guide to Bermondsey Christ Church, Surrey ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Bermondsey Christ Church was originally created as one of several chapelries lying within the boundary of the ancient parish of St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey. It was constructed by the year 1845*.

The other chapels built prior to 1900 in the ancient parish and borough included:


 * Charterhouse Mission, Bermondsey -
 * Christ Church - 1845*
 * Clare College Mission, Bermondsey - 1886
 * Holy Trinity Rotherhithe St, Bermondsey - 1838
 * St Anne Thorburn Sq, Bermondsey - 1866
 * St Augustine, South Bermondsey - 1872
 * St Crispin, Southwark Park Rd - 1874 *St Hugh, Crosby Row - 1885
 * St James, Jamaica Rd, Bermondsey - 1830
 * St Luke, Grange Road - 1885 * St Mary Magdalen - 1548
 * St Paul, Kipling St - 1846
 * St Saviour, Southwark Park Rd - 1874
 * St Stephen‘s Mission Church, Tenda Rd - 1872

BERMONDSEY (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish and union, in the borough of Southwark, E. division of the hundred of Brixton and of Surrey, 1½ mile(S. S. E.) from London.

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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.

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Surrey ($)
 * Genealogist Parish Registers - Surrey ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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