A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians
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Around 1938 a mass centre was built in 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 Norbury, St. Bartholomew to serve Pollards Hill. Sometime in the 1960s responsibility for the mass centre passed from St. Batholomew's to Mitcham, St. Peter and St. Paul RC parish. Pollards Hill St. Michael became a seperate 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
in the 1980s.
There is no graveyard at St. Michael's church. However earlier burials may have take place at the Anglican church of St. Peter and St. Paul Mitcham which was the Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions church
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 We know of only three Roman Catholic cemeteries in the London area, St. Mary's in Kensal Green, St. Patrick's in Leytonstone, and St. Mary Magdalene in Mortlake. Many local cemeteries may have Roman Catholic sections see https://www.merton.gov.uk/births-marriages-and-deaths/deaths/cemeteries/cemeteries-run-by-merton-council West Surrey Family History Society CD10(The Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for:
WSFHS CD29(A 2nd Collection of Metropolitan Surrey Burials Index) has burial records for Mitcham Zion Chapel from 1821 to 1894. For more information about the WSFHS CDs see our sales page (opens in a new page). Pollards Hill is in the London Borough of Merton.
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.
The Merton Index will show you all the churches and cemeteries we know of in the London Borough of Merton. If we have missed any or you are looking for a church or graveyard that might no longer exist do please let us know using the email at the bottom of this page If you came to this page from our main index to churchyards If you came from the Merton page use the button at the top of this page to close the page and go back to the Merton index. |
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