Waverley, Surrey, England Genealogy

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Waverley

Guide to Waverley, Surrey ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Waverley
Type	Extra-parochial
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Surrey
Hundred	Farnham
Poor Law Union	Farnham
Registration District	Farnham
Records Begin
Parish registers	For records see surrounding parishes
Bishop's Transcripts	For records see surrounding parishes
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Not Applicable
Diocese	Not Applicable
Probate Court	Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
Archive
Surrey Record Office

Parish History

WAVERLEY, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union and hundred of Farnham, W. division of Surrey, 2 miles (S. E. by E.) from Farnham.

Resources

Find Neighboring Parishes

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

• Type the name of the parish in the search bar
• Click on the location pin on the map
• Choose Options from the pop up box
• Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
  

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

• See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.
  
  

Church Records

Waverley is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Farnham.

• Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
• The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.
  

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

Probate Records

Surrey will abstracts (1470-1858) are available online at British Origins (£).

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Surrey Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Taxation

• 1664 Hearth Tax at Hearth Tax Digital - free.

Maps and Gazetteers

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• England Jurisdictions 1851
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