Southwark Holy Trinity, Surrey Genealogy

Guide to Southwark Holy Trinity, 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 Christ Church created by at least 1671, is one of five ancient parishes in this metropolitan borough, with three registration districts ('St Saviour, St Olave, and St George). The borough lies on the south side of the River Thames, opposite the City of London; attached with the city by the London, Southwark, and Blackfriars bridges;

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 Holy Trinity 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.

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
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