Camberwell St Giles, Surrey Genealogy
Guide to Camberwell St Giles, Surrey ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Camberwell St Giles, Surrey | |
|---|---|
 St+Giles Camberwell+Church+Street London+SE5 | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Brixton |
| County | Surrey |
| Poor Law Union | Camberwell |
| Registration District | Camberwell |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1557; Separate registers exist for East Dulwich beginning 1848 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1679 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | None |
| Diocese | Pre-1845 - Winchester; Post-1844 - London |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1846 - Court of the Archdeaconry of Surrey; Post-1845 - Court of the Bishop of London (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Surrey Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
CAMBERWELL (St. Giles), a parish and union, in the E. division of the hundred of Brixton and of the county of Surrey, 3¼ miles (S.) from London. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyans.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Church records[edit | edit source]
Dulwich, a village and hamlet in Camberwell St Giles Parish, has some chapel registers mostly transcribed and are available for search online at the following web sites and ranges of years:
| Earliest | |||||||||||||||||||
| Images | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1813-1906 | Ancestry[3] | 1754-1921 | Ancestry[4] | 1813-1856 | Ancestry[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Indexes | 1763-1764 1801-1845 |
FamilySearch[6] | 1626-1772 | findmypast[7] | 1558-1796 | findmypast[8] | |||||||||||||
| 1763-1764 1801-1837 |
FamilySearch[9] | 1769-1812 | findmypast[10] | ||||||||||||||||
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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.
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Camberwell Poor Law Union, Surrey
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Surrey will abstracts (1470-1858) are available online at British Origins (£).[11]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
- St Giles and St Matthew Churches, Camberwell, London (official website). History, photographs, guide to parish registers at LMA, visitor directions, service time.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Date accessed: 26 September 2013.
- ↑ London, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812, courtesy: Ancestry ($). Described as St Giles, Camberwell in Southwark Borough. Marriages from 1754 to 1812 are not included in this database. Partially indexed.
- ↑ London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906, courtesy: Ancestry ($). Described as Camberwell St Giles in Southwark Borough. Partially indexed.
- ↑ London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, courtesy: Ancestry ($). Described as Camberwell St Giles in Southwark Borough. Partially indexed.
- ↑ London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980, courtesy: Ancestry ($). Described as Camberwell St Giles in Southwark Borough. Partially indexed.
- ↑ Batches P006261-P006262, see: Hugh Wallis, "IGI Batch Numbers for London including Middlesex (A-M), England," IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 17 March 2012.
- ↑ "Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county," Origins.net, accessed 12 June 2011; Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd., 1994). FHL Book 942 K22L 1994
- ↑ "Boyd's London Burials Index - places and counts," Find My Past, accessed 8 June 2011. Indexes adult male burials only.
- ↑ Batches M006261, M006262, M006263, see: Hugh Wallis, "IGI Batch Numbers for Surrey, England," IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 2 April 2012.
- ↑ 'Greater London Burials: South London Burials: Parishes, Period and Counts,' British Origins (£), accessed 4 April 2013.
- ↑ 'About Surrey and South London Will Abstracts 1470-1858,' Origins.net, accessed 27 June 2012.
