Kingston upon Thames, Surrey Genealogy

Guide to Kingston upon Thames, Surrey ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES (All Saints), a parish, and the head of a union, in the First division of the hundred of Kingston, E. division of Surrey.

In about 1870, John Wilson wrote:

"KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES, a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Surrey. The town stands on the river Thames, at the terminus of a branch of the Twickenham railway, adjacent to Middlesex, opposite Bushy Park and Hampton Court, and near the Surbiton station of the Southwestern railway, 10 miles SW of Vauxhall Bridge and of Hyde Park Corner, and 12 from the London terminus of the Southwestern railway.

The town extends about a mile along the Thames; has recently undergone much improvement and extension; and may be said to include the new town of Kingstonupon-Railway, and the Middlesex suburb of Hampton Wick. The court house, at the end of the market place, is used for the Lent assizes. The house of correction has been converted into barracks for the county militia. Christ church, and the churches of Norbiton, Surbiton, Hook, Ham, and Robinhood Gate, also are associated with the town, or within the parish; and there are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics. A new cemetery, at Norbiton, is spacious, and has two chapels. The parish contains also the hamlets of Hook, New Malden, and Ham-with-Hatch; and it is ecclesiastically divided into seven parts. The living of 1) All Saints (the ancient parish) is a vicarage, and the livings of 2) Christchurch, 3) Norbiton-with New Malden, 4) Surbiton, 5) Hook, 6) Ham, and 7) Robinhood-Gate are p. curacies [or chapelries with parish registers of christenings and sometimes burials], in the diocese of Winchester. The district comprehends also the sub-district of Wimbledon, conterminate with Wimbledon parish; the sub-district of Esher, containing the parishes of Esher, East Moulsey, West Moulsey, Long Ditton, and Thames Ditton; and the sub-district of Hampton, containing the parishes of Hampton and Teddington, electorally in Middlesex. The places of worship, in 1851, were 18 of the Church of England, with 9, 712 sittings; 8 of Independents, with 1,174 s.; 3 of Baptists, with 394 s.; 2 of Quakers, with 482 s.; 3 of Wesleyans, with 265 s.; 1 of Bible Christians, with 34 attendants; and 1 of Roman Catholics, with 214.

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Kingston upon Thames, Surrey ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Church records
Kingston upon Thames 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.

Taxation

 * 1664 Hearth Tax at Hearth Tax Online - free.

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