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Parish of Wonersh with Blackheath

Searching Registers - Baptism, Marriage and Funeral records

Background information may be found on the page about our Vicars and Registers

You may wish to check our pages for our Graveyard and Cemetery for alphabetical lists.

If you are trying to trace family members in Surrey a helpful site is West Surrey Family History Society and GENUKI: Surrey Genealogy

Searching for Family Records

If you're looking for Baptism, Marriage or Funeral records, we will try to help you as much as we can.
We hold records for the following years:

Registers for St John the Baptist Wonersh	Registers for St Martin's Church Blackheath
Burial Registers 17/2/92 - date	Burial Registers 7/3/51 – 24/12/92 17/2/93 - date
Baptism Registers: 10/4/1994 - present (1 book)	Baptism Registers: 9/9/1928 – present (1 book)
Confirmation Registers: 11/10/1992 - present (1 book)	Confirmation Registers: Jan 1999 - date
Banns of Marriage: 5/7/1998 - present (1 book)	Banns of Marriage: 13/3/1938 – present (1 book)
Marriage Registers: 12/6/04 to present (book No13, 2 copies)	Marriage Registers: 7/8/2004 – present (book No6, 2 copies)
Service Register 3/10/90 - date	Service Register 5/1/97 - date

A search of our records can be time consuming, so please be aware that there is a charge for this service.

Click on the link to see the current full Parish Scale of Fees or look in the church porch; for 2007 these are summarized as:-

SEARCHES IN REGISTERS, ETC. £

For the first hour (inclusive of one copy of an entry in certain registers) 19.00

For each subsequent hour or part of an hour 16.00

Additional copies of entries 19.00

Surrey History Service

If what you require is not at Wonersh our early records have been deposited with the Surrey History Service in Woking: in 2007 they held the following original registers. They will allow you to inspect microfiche copies in Woking and Winchester.

Registers at Surrey History Service in Woking from St John the Baptist Wonersh. Early Registers were repaired by the British Museum.	Registers at Surrey History Service in Woking from St Martin's Church Blackheath
Baptism Registers 1539 – 1683/4 1668 – 1744/5 with a few earlier 1745 – 1782 1779 - 1812 1813 – 1959 (6 Vols) 1959 - 94	Baptism Registers:- None?
Marriage Registers 1539 – 1683/4 1668 – 1744/5 1745 – 1753 1753 - 1837 1838 – 1964 (Books 1-7) 1965-2007 (Books 8-12)	Marriage Registers 1934-2004 (5 Vols)
Banns Book 1823 – 1951 (3 Vols) 1975 – 1998	Banns Book None?
Burial Registers 1539 – 1683 1668 - 1782 1779 – 1812 1813 - 1951 1951-1992	Burial Registers Up to 1951??
Confirmation Register 1899 - 1945 1927 - 1991	Confirmation Register Early Registers at SHC Up to Dec 1998 at St Thomas’s church Chilworth
Service Registers 1898 – 1976 (31 Vols) 1976 – 1990 (2 Vols)	Service Registers:- None?

Note that from 1881 Christ Church Shamley Green constitutes a separate Parish and have their own Registers from that date. Wonersh churchyard was closed in 1861 and burials for Wonersh took place at Shamley Green over this period.

You can see the most up to date list of registers held at Surrey History Service ("Visit us to discover more about your family").
We also recommend the Diocese of Guildford's Family History Research page.

Another source of information, including information from Parish Registers, is the Mormon site Family Search.

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