A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians
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St. John the Evangelist Church Ockley was built ca. 1870 as a Chapel of EaseA daughter church within an ecclesiastical Parish, or a chapel in an outlying area of the parish that is more convenient for parishioners to attend for Ockley St. Margaret. It was declared redundant ca. 1980 and sold for housing. The former church building is in School Lane, adjacent to the school.
Around 200 metres west of the former church is a graveyard, sometimes known as Ockley Cemetery sometimes as St. John's cemetery. Burials here are recorded in the registers for St. Margarets church. West Surrey FHS has no information of monumental inscriptions in this churchyard, however the monumental inscriptions for St. Margaret's were collected by volunteers in 1985. There are just over 600 names recorded in the Surrey Monumental Inscriptions Index.
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 West Surrey Family History Society CD10 (The Surrey Burial Index - 2nd edition 2009) has burial records for Ockley St Margaret from 1539-1865. WSFHS CD32 (Ancient Parishes in the Dorking District – Transcriptions and Indexes. February 2013) has baptismal records for Ockley St Margaret from 1539-1840; and Burial records from 1539-1840. See our sales page(opens in a new page) for more information. 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. Part of the Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions of Ockley was merged into the 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 of Coldharbour, Christ Church and Holmbury St Mary in 1878.
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 Mole Valley Index will show you all the churches and cemeteries we know of in the Mole Valley DistrictA district council is a second tier local authority that provides services such as planning and building control, waste collection, environmental health and housing. Surrey County Council is a first tier local authority. Civil parish councils are the bottom tier of local government in England. 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 "contact us" link at the bottom of this page If you came to this page from our main index to churchyards If you came from the Mole Valley page use the button at the top of this page to close the page and go back to the Mole Valley index. |
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