Horsleydown St Mark, Surrey Family History Guide

Horsleydown St Mark was an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Surrey, created in 1844 from Southwark St John Horsleydown Ecclesiastical Parish. It dissolved in 1885.

Alternative names: Southwark St Mark Horsleydown

Parish church: St Mark

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, and Society of Friends/Quaker.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HORSLEYDOWN, a parish and a sub-district in Southwark-St. Olave district, Surrey.

The parish forms part of the metropolis; lies on the Thames below London bridge, near London bridge r. station; and has a postal pillar box under London, SE.

It was separated from St. Olave in 1732; it bears the name of H. ST. John; and it includes a chapelry constituted in 1844, and called H. ST. Mark. Acres, 69 of land, and 25 of water. Real property, £49,380. Pop. in 1861, 11,393. Houses, 1,445. Pop. of the part within H. St. Mark, 2,920. Houses, 369.

The living of St. John is a rectory, and that of St. Mark is a p. curacy, in the diocese of Winchester. Value of St. J., £350; of St. M., £130. Patron, of St. J., the Lord Chancellor; of St. M., alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church of St. John was one of fifty new churches built about 1732; and it has the remarkable feature of a spire surmounted by an Ionic column.

The district workhouse is here; and, at the census of 1861, had 327 inmates. The subdistrict is conterminate with the parish.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Surrey, Horsleydown – Church records ( 9 )
Births, marriages, and burials, 1776-1837
Author:    Society of Friends. Horsleydown Monthly Meeting (Surrey)

Bishops transcripts, 1803-1853
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Horsleydown (Surrey)

Burial register, 1821-1854
Author:    St. John’s New Burial Ground (Horsleydown, Surrey)

Church records, 1656-1712
Author:    Baptist Church (Horsleydown, Surrey)

Church records, 1813-1872
Author:    Back Street Chapel (Horsleydown, Surrey : Dissenting Protestants)

Church records, 1824-1837
Author:    Union Chapel (Horsleydown : Independent)

Parish registers of St. John Horsleydown, 1762-1899
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Horsleydown (Surrey)

Southwark & Horsleydown Quaker marriages May 1666-Mar 1669/70
Author:    East Surrey Family History Society

Transcripts of parish registers of Southwark, St. John Horsleydown, Surrey, England, 1733-1791
Author:    Challen, W. H. (William Harold); Church of England. Parish Church of Horsleydown (Surrey)

England, Surrey, Horsleydown – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Southwark, Goat Yard Carter Lane New Park Street Baptist, Surr., Eng

Computer printout of Southwark, Union Chapel Parish Street Horsleydown Independent, Surr., Eng

England, Surrey, Horsleydown – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Admission and discharge register, 1791-1811; and poor relief book, 1824-1826
Author:    Horsleydown Workhouse

Maps

Vision of Britain historical mapsOS maps
Ordnance SurveyOS maps
National Library of ScotlandOS maps

Administration

  • County: Surrey
  • Civil Registration District: St Olave Southwark
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Surrey
  • Diocese: Post-1844 – London, Pre-1845 – Winchester
  • Rural Deanery: Southwark
  • Poor Law Union: St Olave
  • Hundred: Southwark Borough
  • Province: Canterbury