Surrey Churches Index



A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians

West Streatham, St. James



Go to the Surrey Churches Index

Go to the West Surrey Family History Society Home page

click here to jump to the location map towards the bottom of the page


image of West Streatham, St. James church
© Copyright Stephen Craven and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Licence.



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 West Streatham, St. James was created in 1905 from parts of the 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 These two had in turn been created from 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 Streatham St. Leonard.

There is no graveyard at St. James's church, nor at St. Alban's nor Immanuel. However early burials would have taken place at the parish church, St. Leonard's. The Surrey Monumental Inscriptions Index has around 1750 names for Streatham St. Leonard. They are taken from Alfred Bax's survey of the church and churchyard ca 1890.


West Surrey Family History Society CD24(A 2nd Collection of Surrey Baptisms (not in The IGI) - October 2011) has baptismal records for Streatham St. Leonard from 1769 (Dec) to 1801(Jan)

WSFHS CD39(A 3rd Collection of Surrey baptisms mostly NOT in the IGI) has baptismal records for Streatham St. Leonard from 1873 to 1875

For more information about WSFHS CDs see our sales page (opens in a new page).
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,


West Streatham is a district in the London Borough of Wandsworth
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.




The Wandsworth Index will show you all the churches and cemeteries we know of in the London Borough of Wandsworth. 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 Wandsworth page use the button at the top of this page to close the page and go back to the Wandsworth index.

Links

A church near you

Church web page

Wikipedia

GEN UKI Pages

British History on-line
[VCH]

British History on-line
[Environs of London: Volume 1, County of Surrey]

contact us:
https://surreychurches.org.uk/contact








What3Words® ///pound.grace.foal

contact us:
https://surreychurches.org.uk/contact



© Tony Kelly 2014-2024



Page last updated: 11 November 2020

web site sponsored by Wychhill Consulting
Wychhill web site logo