Godstone, Surrey Genealogy
Guide to Godstone, Surrey ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Godstone, Surrey | |
|---|---|
 Godstone St+Nicholas Surrey | |
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Tandridge |
| County | Surrey, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Godstone |
| Registration District | Godstone |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1662 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1679 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Ewell |
| Diocese | Winchester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Surrey |
| Location of Archive | |
| Surrey History Centre | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
GODSTONE (St. Nicholas), a parish, and the head of a union, in the First division of the hundred of Tandridge, E. division of Surrey, 19 miles (S.) from London.[1]
Church records[edit | edit source]
| Earliest | |||||||||||||||||||
| Indexes | 1662-1876 | FamilySearch[2] | 1662-1876 | FamilySearch[3] | 1662-1840 | findmypast[4] | |||||||||||||
| 1662-1662 | findmypast[5] | ||||||||||||||||||
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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.
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. 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]
Godstone Poor Law Union, Surrey Genealogy
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Surrey will abstracts (1470-1858) are available online at British Origins (£).[6]
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[edit | edit source]
- 1664 Hearth Tax at Hearth Tax Online - free.
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]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 26 February 2014.
- ↑ Batches C069751, C069753, J069752, K069752, see: Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Surrey, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 2 April 2012.
- ↑ Batches M069751, M069752, M069753, see: Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Surrey, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 2 April 2012.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage,' Find My Past, accessed 11 April 2012.
- ↑ 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,' Origins.net (WayBack Machine), accessed 27 March 2012.
- ↑ 'About Surrey and South London Will Abstracts 1470-1858,' Origins.net, accessed 27 June 2012.
