Beddington, Surrey Genealogy

England   Surrey   Surrey Parishes   Beddington

Beddington, Surrey family history and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers (baptisms, christenings, marriages, and burials), civil registration (births, marriages, and deaths), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and website resources.

Parish History
'BEDDINGTON St Mary, a parish [parish registers from 1538], in the union of Croydon, Second division of the hundred of Wallington, east division of Surrey, 1½ mile west of Croydon. It also comprised the Hamlet of Wallington with its own district church built in 1867.'

Church records
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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.

Some additional later churches built in this ancient parish include:


 * Holy Trinity Wallington - 1867
 * St Michael (Bandon Hill), South Beddington - 1871

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