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England London Boroughs  Wandsworth

Guide to London Borough of Wandsworth ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



History
As with all the other London Boroughs, Wandsworth Borough was organized by the central UK Government in 1965. It includes the former areas of Wandsworth, plus the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.

At the time of the Domesday Book (1086), the manor of Wandsworth was held partly by William, son of Ansculfy, and partly by St Wandrille's Abbey. Its Domesday assets were 12 hides, with 5½ ploughs and 22 acres (89,000 m2) of meadow. Since at least the early 16th century, Wandsworth has offered accommodation to consecutive waves of immigration, from Protestant Dutch metalworkers fleeing persecution in the 1590s to recent Eastern European members of the European Union.

Between Wandsworth town center and the river is the site of Young & Co's Ram Brewery. Traditional draught beer was produced on the site for 425 years starting from 1581, making the Ram Brewery the oldest site in Britain at which beer had been brewed continuously. Shire horse-drawn brewery drays were still used to deliver beer to local pubs. Brewing by Young's stopped in September 2006 when Young & Co merged its operations with Charles Wells of Bedford, brewing does continue on the site by a master brewer albeit in small amounts. A planning application to redevelop the site for residential and shopping/leisure "mixed use" was submitted in 2012.

Wandsworth gas plant was built in 1834 against the River Thames near Wandsworth Bridge. The undertaking became the Wandsworth and Putney Gaslight and Coke Company in 1854 and was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1856. Coal for making coal gas was brought by sea from North East England and unloaded on the Thames beside the gasworks. The firm grew by a series of mergers and takeovers so that by 1936 it served a considerable area of south-west London. The company's name evolved each time it merged with or took over neighboring gas companies, but from 1936 it was the Wandsworth and District Gas Company. The company was nationalised in 1949 and became part of the South Eastern Gas Board.

Wandsworth has a low foreign born population, compared to London as a whole, at 28.1%. The most prevalent foreign born population is South African. According to recent studies, 78% of the population was White, 9.6% Black and 6.9% South Asian.

Cemeteries (Civil)
Putney Vale Cemetery


 * Stag Ln
 * Wimbledon SW15 3DZ
 * Phone: +44 20 3959 0090

St Mary's Cemetery


 * Bolingbroke Grove
 * Wandsworth SW11 1HE

Wandsworth (Earlsfield) Cemetery (Commonwealth War Graves)


 * 32 Magdalen Rd
 * London SW18 3ER
 * Phone: +44 20 8871 7820

Parishes
Bromley Parish Church

* 9 St Paul's Square

* Bromley, BR2 0XH

* Tel: 020 8460 6275

St Mary's

* College Rd

* Bromley BR1 3QG

* Phone: +44 20 8466 6969

St Mary the Virgin

* Hayes St

* Bromley BR2 7LH

* Phone: +44 20 8462 1373

Christ Church

* Highland Road

* Bromley, Kent BR1 4AA

* Phone: 020 8464 1898

St Mark's

* Westmoreland Rd

* Bromley BR2 0TB

* Phone: +44 20 8460 6220

St John's

* Park Rd

* Bromley BR1 3HJ

* Phone: +44 20 8460 1844

St George's

* High St

* Beckenham BR3 1AX

* Phone: +44 20 8663 6996

Christ Church

* 1A Christ Church Rd

* Beckenham BR3 3LE

* Phone: +44 20 8650 3847

All Saints

* Trewsbury Rd

* London SE26 5DP

* Phone: +44 20 8778 3065

St John's

* St John's Rd

* London SE20 7EQ

* Phone: +44 20 8778 6176

All Saints, Orpington

* Bark Hart Rd  ,

* Orpington BR6 0QD

* Phone: +44 1689 832031

St Martin of Tours

* 5 Church Rd

* Chelsfield, Orpington BR6 7RF

* Phone: +44 1689 825749

St Nicholas'

* 18 Church Row

* Chislehurst BR7 5PG

Christ Church, Chislehurst

* 40 Lubbock Rd

* Chislehurst BR7 5JJ

* Phone: +44 20 8402 5081

====Non Conformists====

* Baptist

* Christ Church

* Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

* Coptic Orthodox

* Cornerstone Christian Church

* Evangelical

* Jehovah's Witnesses

* Lutheran

* Methodist

* Redeemed Christian Church of God

* Roman Catholic

* Salvation Army

* Seventh Day Adventist

There are a number of communities of non Christian religions including the following:

* Buddhist

* Scientology

* Confucian

* Jews

* Muslim

* Sikh

===Civil Registration===

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the UK government from July 1837 to the present day. Prior to that, the only available records were those kept by the ecclesiastical bodies. As the Borough of Bromley was previously part of the County of Kent, the link to Kent County BMD records is listed below.

* Bromley BMD records

* ukbmd: Bromley Registration District

* bmd certificates uk: Bromley

* ukbmd: County of Kent

===Local Histories===

* Bromley Council local history

* british history on line: Bromley

* Beckenham History on line

* hidden london: Penge

* british history on line: Orpington

* british history on line: Chistlehurst

* Bromley: A History and Celebration by John Ruler

===Maps and Gazetteers===

* Bromley Borough Ward map

* old maps on line: Bromley

* viamichelin: Bromley

* hidden london: Bromley Gazetteer

===Newspapers===

* The Bromley Times

* The London Evening Standard, Bromley

* Search Old newspapers for Bromley

===Occupations===

A large part of the northwest segment of Bromley Borough is residential, and residents commute daily to work in the Greater London area. Because this area of Kent is a very high cost property market, most are employed in the finance, legal, and corporate governance segment of the market.

About 30% of the land in Bromley is farmland, the highest figure of a London Borough. This part of Kent is known colloquially as the garden of England, and agriculture provides many of the local area residents employment. Kent is the largest area in the UK for the growth of hops (for beer brewing) and there are many oast houses still operation in the area. However due to their unique design, many have been converted to residences. There are many large market gardens, providing fruit and vegetables to the grater London area.

The town has a large retail area, including a pedestrianized High Street and The Glades center, the main shopping mall. The shopping area includes retailers such as Gap, Oasis, Russell & Bromley and Waterstone's, whilst there are also many restaurants.

The area is also such a beautiful part of the UK that many opportunities are available in the vacation and holiday industry. Several of the large ports with ferries to the Continent are close by, providing a base for the multitude of "B&B" homes in Bromley Borough.

Several large companies based in the area that provide employment opportunities are: Allied Carpets HQ, Churchill Insurance, Cosmos Holidays, and Russel and Bromley Ltd.

===Societies===

* Northwest Kent Family History Society

* Bromley Borough History Society

* Kent Family History Society

===Archives===

* Archives and records, Bromley Borough

* Bromley Archives.org

* The National Archives: Bromley

* The National Archives: Penge

* Visit Chislehurst Archives

===Web Sites===

* London Borough of Bromley

* Bromley wikipedia

* Beckenham wikipedia

* Penge wikipedia

* Orpington wikipedia

* Chislehurst wikipedia

* Kent County Council

* Greater London Council

==References==