Newington, Surrey Genealogy

England   Surrey   Surrey Parishes   Newington

View a Comprehensive List of Chapels and District Churches in the Civil Parish of Newington St Mary.

Parish History
'NEWINGTON St Mary, or Newington-Butts, a parish, in the E. division of the hundred of Brixton and of the county of Surrey, 1¾ mile south from London.

Two district churches were erected in the parish, in 1824 and 1825. The church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, in Trinity-square and the other church, dedicated to St Peter, is in the hamlet of Walworth, which see.

There were places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and the followers of Joanna Southcott.

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
St Mary Newington Workhouse Baptisms 1841-1861

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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

Web sites
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