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

Horne
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Horne St+Mary+the+Virgin Surrey
Type Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Surrey
Hundred Tandridge
Poor Law Union Godstone
Registration District Godstone
Records Begin
Parish registers 1614
Bishop's Transcripts 1666
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Ewell
Diocese Winchester
Province Canterbury
Probate Court Court of the Archdeaconry of Surrey
Archive
Surrey Record Office


Parish History[edit | edit source]

HORNE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Godstone, First division of the hundred of Tandridge, E. division of Surrey, 5½ miles (S. S. W.) from Godstone.[1]

Additional information:

Horne is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey Horne Surrey Wikipedia

Horne St Mary the Virgin is an Ecclesiastical parish formed in 1705 from an ancient chapelry in Bletchingley, Surrey Ancient Parish. The Parish is in the Diocese of Southwark. A map of the ecclesiastical parish boundary is available at A church near you Part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbours Worth, Sussex and East Grinstead, Sussex and Surrey neighbour Burstow, Surrey which includes Smallfield.

A history of the church is found A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (1912), pp. 291-296. at British History Online

Horne St Mary the Virgin dates from the thirteenth century and has been designated as a grade II* listed building by English Heritage.British listed building

The civil parish boundary also includes Newchapel see Newchapel Surrey Wikipedia whose most notable feature is the London Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which stands at the side of the A22 London-Eastbourne Road at the Newchapel roundabout.
This building is not open to the general public but does include a Visitor Centre which explains the beliefs of the church and displays the history of the temple building which was constructed in the 1950's and dedicated in 1958.

See also London England Temple Wikipedia and Newchapel Surrey Wikipedia

Also within the civil parish is the British Wildlife Centre British Wildlife Centre website

Resources[edit | edit source]

Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

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*Choose Options from the pop up box
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Cemeteries[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Godstone Registration District

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

Church Records[edit | edit source]

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England[edit | edit source]

Due to the increasing access of online records:

  • Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
  • Dates in the following table are approximate

Hover over the collection's title for more information

Horne Online Parish Records
Collections
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Surrey
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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FamilySearch Parish Registers-Surrey
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Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
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1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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FreeREG
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Surrey ($)
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1500s-1900s
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1600s-1800s
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Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Surrey ($)
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1500s-1800s
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1500s-1800s
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Ancestry-England Select Birth, Christening, Marriage, Death and Burials ($)
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1800s-1900s
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1800s-1900s
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1800s-1900s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
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National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
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Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.


Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

Census Records[edit | edit source]

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

Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]

A parish workhouse existed in the parish in the 1790's; an index for the parish records has been prepared by volunteers at the Surrey History Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey GU21 6ND ref(BG5/55/1-14)

Godstone Poor Law Union,Surrey

Probate Records[edit | edit source]

Surrey will abstracts (1470-1858) are available online at British Origins (£).[2]

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[edit | edit source]

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 26 February 2014.
  2. 'About Surrey and South London Will Abstracts 1470-1858,' Origins.net, accessed 27 June 2012.