A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians
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There are around 600 names from Pirbright in the Surrey Monumental Inscriptions Index, a handful date back to the mid 1700s.
Search for any references to your ancestor in the Surrey Index of Names:
https://www.wsfhs.co.uk/pages/sindex/siSearch.php (opens in new browser window) or use our contact form to find out which Monumental Inscription collections might be available: https://surreychurches.org.uk/contact Pirbright was originally 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 the Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions of Woking and became a separate parish after the dissolution in the 16th century. WSFHS CD10 (The Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for St Michael and All Angels, Pirbright from 1574 to 1941. WSFHS CD15(Surrey Baptisms Not in the IGI) has Baptismal records for St Michael and All Angels, Pirbright from 1574 to 1787. WSFHS CD30(Ancient Parishes in the Guildford District - Transcriptions and Indexes) has Baptismal records for St Michael and All Angels, Pirbright from 1574 to 1840, marriages 1574 to 1837 and burials 1574 to 1840; See our sales page for more information (opens in a new page). The church is in the Anglican Diocese of Guildford. The Guildford Diocesan Record Office, where you should find any surviving registers for this parish, is the Surrey History Centre. Pirbright 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 Guildford District of Surrey
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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