A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians
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Hatcham was a manor and later a ChapelryA Chapel of Ease within an Anglican Parish, or a chapel in an outlying area of the parish that is more convenient for parishioners to attend in what is now Deptford, London It largely corresponds to the area around New Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham.
The Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions of Deptford straddled the counties of Surrey and Kent, so there was some doubt over the county in which the manor of Hatcham was situated, and in 1636 the matter was settled placing it entirely within Surrey. Hatcham became part of Deptford St Paul when the parish was divided in 1730. It has lent its name to the subsequently created ecclesiastical parishes of All Saints' Hatcham Park, St Catherine's and St James' Hatcham, which include parts of the historic county of Kent. (from Wikpedia) WSFHS holds no Monumental Inscription information for Hatchem West Surrey Family History Society CD39(A 3rd Collection of Surrey Baptisms) has baptismal records for Hatchem St James from 1845-1876. See the WSFHS sales page for more information (opens in a new page). The church is in the Church of England Diocese of Southwark. The Southwark Diocesan Record Office, where you should find any surviving parish registers for this church, is the London Archives (formerly called the London Metropolitan Archives). Other Church of England churches in Hatchem included:
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