Surrey Churches Index



A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians

Purley, Christ Church

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The new ecclesiastical parishan ecclesiastical parish is an administrative area within the Church of England or Roman Catholic church. It is distinct from the civil parish, a local government unit in England of Purley, Christ Church was created in 1884 from parts of the Ancient Parishesan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions of: and the ecclesiastical parishan ecclesiastical parish is an administrative area within the Church of England or Roman Catholic church. It is distinct from the civil parish, a local government unit in England of Croydon St. Peter (South End).

Three is no graveyard at Christ Church, however the Surrey Monumental inscriptions Library has records for the predecessor churches.


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Parts of the ecclesiastical parishan ecclesiastical parish is an administrative area within the Church of England or Roman Catholic church. It is distinct from the civil parish, a local government unit in England of Purley Christ Church were moved into new ecclesiastical parishesan ecclesiastical parish is an administrative area within the Church of England or Roman Catholic church. It is distinct from the civil parish, a local government unit in England :


Beddington
WSFHS CD10(Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for Beddington St. Mary from 1538 to 1865.

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Coulsdon
WSFHS CD10 (The Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for Coulsdon St John the Evangelist from 1655 to 1865.

WSFHS CD15(Surrey Baptisms Not in the IGI) has baptismal records for Coulsdon St John the Evangelist from 1857 to 1875.

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Croydon St. Peter
West Surrey Family History Society CD10 (The Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for Croydon St. Peter from 1852 to 1865.

WSFHS CD12 (Croydon Parish Registers to 1753 and Croydon Monumental Inscriptions to 1882) has Monumental Inscriptions for Croydon St. Peter from 1850 to 1881.

WSFHS CD15(Surrey Baptisms Not in the IGI) has baptismal records for Croydon St. Peter

from 1851 to 1875.

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Sanderstead
West Surrey Family History Society CD10 (The Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for Sanderstead All Saints from 1567 to 1875.

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The church is in the Church of England Diocese of Southwark. The Southwark Diocesan Record Office for churches and parishes in the modern administrative county of Surrey, and those London Boroughs that were in Surrey until 1965, is the Surrey History Centre.

This is where you should find any surviving parish registers,


Purley is in the London Borough of Croydon.


Unless otherwise stated the dates for the creation of parishes are taken from Youngs, Frederick. A., jr.. Guide to the Administrative Units of England; Royal Historical Society: London, 1979 volume 1 Southern England.




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