A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians
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The Roman Catholic mission in Normandy began around 1927. Mass was said in the village hall until 1931 when a second hand wooden building, said to have been an army officers mess, was erected on a site off Glaziers Lane. The mission became part of the Roman Catholic 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 Ash when the new Holy Angels church was opened in Ash in 1934.
The mission church finally closed in 2002 following a redeployment of clergy in the area. The land was sold for housing and is now known as Milton Close. There was no graveyard at this Roman Catholic Church. St. Mary's was located in the Anglican 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 Wyke, St. Mark. The only Roman Catholic graveyard we know of in the area is Sutton Place, St. Edward the Confessor in Woking. Many local cemeteries may have Roman Catholic sections see https://www.guildford.gov.uk/crematoriumandcemeteries West Surrey Family History Society CD10 (The Surrey Burial Index - 2nd edition 2009) has burial records for Wyke St. Mark from 1848 to 1865. See our sales page for more information (opens in a new page). Normandy is a (civil) parisha Civil Parish is the bottom most tier of local government in England Sometimes called Town Councils in urban areas [NB Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have different systems of local government] in the District of Guildford
Unless otherwise stated the dates for the creation of parishes are taken from Youngs, Frederick. A., Guide to the Administrative Units of England; Royal Historical Society: London, 1979 volume 1 Southern England.
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LinksParish web siteWikipedia Normandy Historians British History on line included in Ash Surrey History centre notes on Roman Catholics in Surrey Surrey History Centre notes on Roman Catholic Records Catholic Heritage.net Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton contact us: https://surreychurches.org.uk/contact |
