Alfold Surrey Family History Guide

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Alfold is an Ancient Parish partly in Surrey and partly in Sussex.

Alternative names: Aldfold, Awfold

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1658
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1587

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ALFOLD, Aldfold, or Awfold, a parish in the district of Hambledon, and counties of Surrey and Sussex; on the Wey and Arundel canal, 6½ miles SE of Witley r. station, and 8 SSE of Godalming. It has a post office under Horsham. Acres, 2,883. Real property, £1,970. Pop., 535. Houses, 96.

Much of the surface is wood land; and little yields any grain but oats.

Several French refugees from the massacre on St. Bartholomew’s day settled here, and erected a glass manufactory.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £205. Patron, the Rev. L. W. Elliott. The church is Norman.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Surrey, Alfold – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Alfold, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Surrey, Alfold – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Alfold, Bramley, Chiddingfold, Dunsfold, Hambledon, Hascombe, Surrey; 1851 census : index of names
Author: Webb, Cliff (Clifford R.)

England, Surrey, Alfold – Church records ( 9 )
Alfold, Surrey : baptisms, 1658-1841; burials, 1658-1840
Author: Webb, Cliff (Clifford R.); West Surrey Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Alfold (Surrey)

Bishop’s transcripts for Alfold, 1692-1866
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alfold (Surrey)

Churchwardens and overseers records, 1630-1806, 1822
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alfold (Surrey)

Land tax assessments for the parish of Alfold, 1780-1821
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Surrey)

Parish registers for Alfold, 1658-1876
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alfold (Surrey)

Parish registers for Alfold, 1874-1901
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alfold (Surrey)

Parish registers for Wisborough-Green, 1560-1901
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wisborough-Green (Sussex); West Sussex Record Office (Chichester, England)

Parish registers, transcriptions & indexes for the ancient parishes of Alford, Bramley, Chiddingford, Cranleigh, Dunsford, Elstead, Ewhurst, Hambledon, Hascombe, Haslemere, Peper Harow, Shalford, St Martha’s, Thursley, Witley, Wonersh
Author: West Surrey Family History Society

Vestry books, 1831-1848
Author: Alfold (Surrey); Church of England. Parish Church of Alfold (Surrey)

England, Surrey, Alfold – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Alfold, Surrey, England

Parish register printouts of Alfold, Surrey, England ; christenings, 1800-1866
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Surrey, Alfold – Land and property ( 1 )
Poor rates, 1799-1835
Author: Alfold (Surrey)

England, Surrey, Alfold – Officials and employees ( 1 )
Vestry books, 1831-1848
Author: Alfold (Surrey); Church of England. Parish Church of Alfold (Surrey)

England, Surrey, Alfold – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 4 )
Churchwardens and overseers records, 1630-1806, 1822
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alfold (Surrey)

Local authority and poor rate books, 1885-1900
Author: Alfold (Surrey)

Poor rates, 1799-1835
Author: Alfold (Surrey)

Vestry books, 1831-1848
Author: Alfold (Surrey); Church of England. Parish Church of Alfold (Surrey)

England, Surrey, Alfold – Public records ( 1 )
Vestry books, 1831-1848
Author: Alfold (Surrey); Church of England. Parish Church of Alfold (Surrey)

England, Surrey, Alfold – Taxation ( 1 )
Poor rates, 1799-1835
Author: Alfold (Surrey)

Administration

  • County: Surrey
  • Civil Registration District: Hambledon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Surrey
  • Diocese: Winchester
  • Rural Deanery: Stoke
  • Poor Law Union: Hambledon
  • Hundred: Blackheath (Surrey)
  • Province: Canterbury