Surrey

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Surrey

County town: Guildford

Other major towns: Croydon, Sutton, Cheam, Coulsdon, Purley, Epsom, Woking, Farnham, Dorking

One of the "Home Counties", and situated between the South Coast and London, it has been very important politically since the time of the Romans. Surrey is a rich, fertile county, with countless square miles of farmland, deciduous woodland, and rolling downs, as well as vast tracts of pine forest and heathland.

Guildford is the county town; with the remains of its 12th century Norman Castle, and modern-day cathedral, topped by a golden angel. Kingston-upon-Thames is probably historically more famous as being where seven Saxon kings were crowned. The Coronation Stone can still be seen in the old town centre, where ancient buildings sit alongside the modern shopping centre. Surrey is full of historic country estates and gardens, picturesque villages with thatched cottages and working mills.

It should be noted that Croydon, Sutton, Cheam, Coulsdon, & Purley, although technically in Surrey, are now part of Greater London and are all in London boroughs so not covered by Surrey County Council. Kingston is a Royal borough and, although Surrey County Council HQ is in Kingston, it too is a London borough.

Lewis Carroll often stayed with his sister at Guildford where he died in 1898.

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Register Office Contact Details

Guildford Register Office

Artington House
Portsmouth Road
Guildford, Surrey
GU2 4DZ
Tel 08456 009 009
E-mail registration.guildford@surreycc.gov.uk

Leatherhead Register Office

The Mansion
Church Street
Leatherhead
Surrey, KT22 8DP
Tel 01372 832800
E-mail registration.leatherhead@surreycc.gov.uk

Weybridge Register Office

Rylston
81 Oatlands Drive
Weybridge, Surrey
KT13 9LN
Tel 01932 794700
E-Mail registration.weybridge@surreycc.gov.uk

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

• Croydon Local Studies (Sch holidays usually) Deb N

• Richmond Local Studies. Weekly/Weybridge Local Studies Library. Saturdays Paul Barton, Special Agent

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

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• Wallington Winter Drawers Ever Near
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• Frimley (10 mile radius) Tree Genie

Photo Offers

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Links

• County Record Office

• Library Link

• Croydon Local Studies Library

Local History Society

• East Surrey FHS

• West Surrey FHS

• Wimbledon LHS

• Horley LHS

• Richmond LHS

• Streatham Society

OPC

Archives

• IGI Surrey

• Newspaper Detectives Names from the Surrey Advertiser for selected years: 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867 and 1872.

• Online marriage and birth records for Kingston upon Thames from about 1842 to 1905.

• Surrey Plus wills Transcriptions of wills from Surrey and nine other counties. Regularly updated.

• Burials database for Richmond-on-Thames The database covers East Sheen Cemetery, Hampton Cemetery, Old Mortlake Burial Ground, Richmond Cemetery, Teddington Cemetery and Twickenham Cemetery.

• Surrey History Centre Catalogue - quite brilliant - a bit like A2A but better! N.B. I agree that Surrey History Centre's catalogue is brilliant - and most of it isn't on A2A - but when I've used it, it doesn't seem to like * for wildcard searches. There are lots of entries on the original paper catalogues which eluded me when using the online search engine because of all the spelling variations. Broomfield, for example appears as Bromfield, Brumfeild etc and possibly Broomfylde (so potentially EIGHTEEN different spellings, i.e. 18 different searches)

• Pigots 1839 Directory of Surrey

Family and Social History

• Surrey Workhouses

• Maps of Kingston and Surbiton Cemeteries

• Croydon Poor Law and Workhouse Records

• Ideal Homes Suburbia In Focus is a joint project of the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark and the University of Greenwich.
  

Maps & Photographs

• A map of Surrey, 1768. By John Roque

• Photographs of Farnham in Surrey A collection of modern photographs which show many buildings in the town and in the local area.

Countywide Interest

• Archaeology

• The Surrey Advertiser research site

• The Weald: Kent, Surrey and Sussex

Specific Town Village Interest

• Pictures of Bisley

• Brookwood Cemetery Society

• Brookwood Hospital Archives

• Croydon History

• Elstead War Memorial

• Ewehurst History Society

• History and Photographs of Godalming

• John Owen Smith's Website Covers the area around Headley in Hampshire and across the border to Haslemere in Surrey.

• Welcome to Knaphill Knaphill – a brief history

• Puttenham Surrey (Inc. Wanborough)

• Puttenham - some Births and Baptisms

• Puttenham- some Burials

• Houses of Note in Reigate

• Wanborough Local History and Genealogy

• Wanborough -Wanborough some Electoral Rolls and Kelly's Directory transcripts

• Not a website but a book!
  

Surrey Record Society Volume XXXIX
Surrey Probate Inventories 1558-1603
Transcribed by D. M. Herridge
Surrey Record Society, 2005
ISBN 0 902978 14 4
Arranged in chronological order with indexes of items (classified), people, occupations and stations, and properties. Also includes a glossary of unfamilar words, eight illustrations (two in colour), and a very interesting introduction.

• Other recommended books:

SHOTTERMILL - its Farms, Families and Mills Part 1 - Early Times to the 1700s

SHOTTERMILL - its Farms, Families and Mills Part 2 - 1730 to the Early 20th Century

Both by Greta A. Turner and available from John Owen Smith

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