Sunningdale Berkshire Family History Guide

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Sunningdale is an Ecclesiastical Parish partly in Surrey and partly in Berkshire; Created in 1841 from Old Windsor Ancient Parish, Sunninghill Ancient Parish, Windlesham Ancient Parish, Egham Ancient Parish and Chobham Ancient Parish.

The present-day civil parish of Sunningdale came into existence in 1894 under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894.

Other places in the parish include: Broomhall.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1841
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1836

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

SUNNINGDALE Station, Berkshire
SUNNINGDALE Station, Berkshire

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SUNNINGDALE, a chapelry partly in Old Windsor, Egham, and Sunninghill parishes, Berks, and partly in Chobham and Windlesham parishes, Surrey; on the Staines and Reading railway, 8 miles SW by W of Staines.

It was constituted in 1841; and it has a r. station with telegraph. Post town, Staines. Pop., 709. Houses, 148. Much of the land, with Cowarth House, belongs to J. A. Arbuthnot, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £90. Patron, the Bishop of O. The church was built in 1839; and there are an Independent chapel of 1865, and an endowed school.

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

Parish Records

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England, Berkshire, Sunningdale – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Sunningdale, 1836-1987
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Sunningdale (Berkshire)

England, Berkshire, Sunningdale – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Vestry minutes, 1842-1893
Author: Sunningdale (Berkshire)

England, Berkshire, Sunningdale – Schools ( 1 )
Admission registers, 1907-1923
Author: Holy Trinity School (Sunningdale, Berkshire)

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Online Records (Free)

England, Surrey Parish Registers, 1536-1992

Administration

  • County: Berkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Windsor
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
  • Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Reading
  • Poor Law Union: Windsor
  • Hundred: Cookham; Ripplesmere
  • Province: Canterbury