Horne, Surrey Genealogy

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Parish History
HORNE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Godstone, First division of the hundred of Tandridge, E. division of Surrey, 5½ miles (S. S. W.) from Godstone;It was a chapelry to Bletchingley till 1705, when an act was passed for making it a distinct rectory.

Horne is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey Horne Surrey Wikipedia

Horne St Mary the Virgin is an Ecclesiastical parish formed in 1705 from an ancient chapelry in Bletchingley, Surrey Ancient Parish. The Parish is in the Diocese of Southwark. A map of the ecclesiastical parish boundary is available at A church near you Part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbours Worth, Sussex and East Grinstead, Sussex and Surrey neighbour Burstow, Surrey which includes Smallfield.

A history of the church is found A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (1912), pp. 291-296. at British History Online

Horne St Mary the Virgin dates from the thirteenth century and has been designated as a grade II* listed building by English Heritage.British listed building

The civil parish boundary also includes Newchapel see Newchapel Surrey Wikipedia whose most notable feature is the London Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which stands at the side of the A22 London-Eastbourne Road at the Newchapel roundabout. This building is not open to the general public but does include a Visitor Centre which explains the beliefs of the church and displays the history of the temple building which was constructed in the 1950's and dedicated in 1958.

See also London England Temple Wikipedia and Newchapel Surrey Wikipedia

Also within the civil parish is the British Wildlife Centre British Wildlife Centre website

Civil Registration
Godstone Registration District

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 registers previous to 1812 are in six volumes: (1) baptisms 1614 to 1694, burials 1614 to 1710, marriages 1643 to 1710. The burials from 1678 have been transcribed from another volume. (2) burials 1678 to 1742; (3) baptisms and burials 1711 to 1787, marriages 1711 to 1753; (4) marriages 1754 to 1781; (5) baptisms and burials 1783 to 1812; (6) marriages 1783 to 1812.'

Deposited parish registers at the Surrey History Centre Baptisms 1614-2001 Marriages 1642-2000 Burials 1614-1888

Transcripts are available of the parish registers for baptisms and burials for 1614-1840 and the

Surrey History Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking GU21 6ND offers microfilm for years of the LDS filming (see below) and will produce originals for later registers.

Link to the Family History Library films in their collection which has two filmings in 1950 and 1982 the latter contains General register (baptisms, marriages, burials), 1614-1711; burials, 1678-1742; general register (baptisms, 1709-1787; marriages, 1709-1753; banns, 1754-1805; burials, 1709-1787); marriages, 1754-1805; baptisms and burials, 1783-1813; marriages, 1783-1812; baptisms, 1813-1854; marriages, 1813-1837; burials, 1813-1888.

Census records
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Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

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

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.

Poor Law Unions
A parish workhouse existed in the parish in the 1790's; an index for the parish records has been prepared by volunteers at the Surrey History Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey GU21 6ND ref(BG5/55/1-14)

Godstone Poor Law Union,Surrey

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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