Reigate, Surrey Genealogy
England 
Surrey Surrey Parishes
Parish History
REIGATE (St. Mary Magdalene), a borough,market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, inthe First division of the hundred of Reigate, E. divisionof Surrey, 18 miles (E.) from Guildford, and 21 (S. byW.) from London. [1]
From: 'Reigate - Rettendon', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 655-659. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51235 Date accessed: 31 July 2013.
Church records
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| Indexes | 1800-1869 | FamilySearch[2] | 1558-1608 1800-1812 1826-1869 |
FamilySearch[3] | 1813-1840 | FindMyPast[4] | |||||||||||||
| 1559-1698 | FindMyPast[5] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Civil Registration
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Census records
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Probate records
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.
Parish History
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Web sites
References
- ↑ Lewis,Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 655-659. Date accessed: 31 July 2013.
- ↑ Batch C054701 , see: Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Surrey, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 2 April 2012.
- ↑ Batch M054701 , see: Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Surrey, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 2 April 2012.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage,' Find My Past, accessed 11 April 2012. For a breakdown of missing years, see 'National Burial Index - Coverage: Surrey,' Federation of Family History Societies, accessed 11 April 2012.
- ↑ 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,' Origins.net (WayBack Machine), accessed 27 March 2012.