Surrey, Southwark Burials

Each search result provides a transcription of the original document and a digital image of that document. The exact information contained within any one entry may depend both upon the date and place and upon the customs and beliefs of the denomination registering the event. However, you should be able to find out a combination of the following:

• Name
• Death and/or burial date
• Death and/or burial place
• Age
• Address

These records are among the first releases from Findmypast’s partnership with Southwark Archives, the archive serving the London Borough of Southwark. This area of London south of the Thames was part of the historical and ceremonial county of Surrey, but its importance to the social and cultural functioning of the City has always been recognised. As it was situated outside the jurisdiction of the City of London, it also enjoyed a reputation for counter-cultural tendencies, such as when, in Shakespeare’s day, playhouses sprang up alongside the many inns, bowling alleys, gambling dens and other venues we are too polite to mention.

The Archives hold an appropriately diverse collection of records. Our first publications relate to registers created by the Non-Conformist, or Dissenting, denominations of Southwark. These mainly cover the C19th and early C20th and are drawn from Baptist, Congregational (Independent) and Methodist chapels across different parts of the borough. Generally, these created burial registers not too dissimilar from those generated by the Established Anglican Church and its Roman Catholic counterpart. The burial collection is modest in size and relates solely to the Independents (Congregationalist), who are now part of the United Reformed Church.

You can search for records relating to the historic congregations of the York Street Chapel and the Colliers Rents Independent Chapel, for both of which burial records date back to the late C18th (1781 and 1783 respectively).