Southwark Christchurch, Surrey Genealogy, England

Guide to Southwark Christchurch, Surrey ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Southwark, parlimentary borough, Surrey, on river Thames, opposite London city.

Borough Of Southwark. (In the Diocese of Winchester).

Additional information:

Southwark.—See London.

The five ancient parishes of Southwark include Christ Church, St Olave, St Saviour, St Thomas, and St George-the-Martyr.

The ecclesiastical arrangement for Southwark included also the following chapelries:


 * All Hallow, Copperfield St - 1875
 * St Jude - 1850
 * St Mary Magdalen - 1843
 * St Michael - 1867
 * St Paul Westminster Road.- 1858
 * St Peter - 1846
 * St Stephen - 1850
 * St Alphege - 1872
 * Wilberforce Mission Church -

The places of worship within the new borough, which includes the parish incumbencies of Horsley-Down, Bermondsey, and Rotherhithe. Included in the borough are the following Nonconformist churches:


 * English Presbyterian Church - 1
 * Independents - 1
 * Baptists - 15
 * Quakers - 1
 * Unitarians - 1
 * Wesleyan Methodists - 7
 * Primitive Methodists - 1
 * Wesleyan Association - 3
 * Wesleyan Reformers - 1
 * Welsh Calvinistic Methodists - 1
 * Roman Catholics -3

There were four additional unspecified dissenting chapels in the borough as well.

Church records
Southwark Christchurch parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Surrey History Centre.

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.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Christ Church, Southwark (official website). History, photographs, visitor directions, service times.

Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.