Lambeth St Mary, Surrey Genealogy

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Here is a Comprehensive List of Chapels and District Churches within St Mary Lambeth Civil Parish as of 1900.

Parish History
'LAMBETH St Mary, a parish, and newly-enfranchised borough, in the E. division of the hundred of Brixton and of the county of Surrey and annexed to Lambeth Palace. The church, is from the latter part of the 14th century. There is a burial-ground in High-street that was consecrated in 1705.

Four district churches were erected in the parish [by] 1824, by aid of the Parliamentary Commissioners. These were St. John's, in the Waterloo-road, St. Mark's at Kennington, St. Matthew's at Brixton-Causeway, and St. Luke's at Norwood. Additional, later churches included St Mary the Less, Norwood in 1842, St Mary's district church, Lambeth-Butts, erected in 1828, Holy Trinity, was erected in 1839, the York-street, Waterloo district church,  May, 1844, All Saints' district church, in the New-Cut, was consecrated in 1847; South Lambeth episcopal chapel, Lawn-place, was erected in 1794;Two church districts, named respectively Lambeth St Thomas's and St Andrew's, were formed in 1846. Other incumbencies [chapels] are noticed under the heads of Brixton, Kennington, and Stockwell [which see]. See the Comprehensive List of Chapels and District Churches within St Mary Lambeth Civil Parish for known chapels and district churches pertaining to this ancient parish.

Nonconformist churches included the Westminster Road Roman Catholic chapel, St George's, of which the foundation-stone was laid in April, 1840. There are places of worship for Baptists, Wesleyan Methodists, Welsh Methodists, Independents, Unitarians, and others.

Beyond the (Archibishop of Canterbury's) Palace library is the Lambeth Palace Chapel, which is by far the most ancient part of these grounds. The Asylum for Female Orphans, and for the reception of deserted females the settlement of whose parents cannot be found, was instituted in 1758, and incorporated in 1800, and is under the patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge; the buildings occupy three sides of a quadrangle, in the central range of which is a handsome chapel. The General Lying-in Hospital, for the reception of patients from any part of the kingdom, and for the delivery of out-patients at their own habitations in the metropolis and its environs, was instituted in 1765, and incorporated in 1830.'

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

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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.Find my Past 1911 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.

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Web sites
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