Surrey, England Genealogy

Introduction

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford.^[1] Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of Greater London since 1965.

Surrey is divided into 11 boroughs and districts: Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking. After the elections of 1 May 2008, the Conservatives are in control of 10 out of 11 councils in Surrey, with Epsom and Ewell in Independent control. The Conservatives hold all 11 Parliamentary constituencies within the county borders.

Surrey has a population of approximately 1.1 million people. The historic county town is Guildford, although the county administration was moved to Newington in 1791 and to Kingston upon Thames in 1893. The county council’s headquarters have been outside the county’s boundaries since 1 April 1965 when Kingston and other areas were included within Greater London by the London Government Act 1963.^[2] Recent plans to move the offices to a new site in Woking have now been abandoned.^[3] Due to its proximity to London there are many commuter towns and villages in Surrey, the population density is high and the area is more affluent than other parts of the UK. Surrey is the most densely populated county after Greater London, the metropolitan counties and Bristol. Much of the north east of the county is an urban area contiguous to Greater London. In the west, there is a conurbation straddling the Hampshire/Surrey border, including in Surrey Camberley and Farnham.

Most English counties have nicknames for people from that county, such as a Tyke from Yorkshire and a Yellowbelly from Lincolnshire; the traditional nickname for people from Surrey is ‘Surrey Capon’, as it was well known in the later Middle Ages as the county where chickens were fattened up for the London meat markets.

Source: Wikipedia

SURREY County,

England

Surnames

The following are surnames of persons, found within our databases,

as having been either born, married or died in this location.

McVicker; Moreland; Pinnell; Scruggs and allied families

AGUILLON; BARDOLF; COLEPEPER; FERRERS;

GAINSFORD(GAYNESFORD); POLE; SYDNEY; WARENNE

Bozarth; Peiffer; Quigley; Rhubart and allied families

Dellinger; Knecht; Pfeffer; Silar and allied families

To find out more about each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK.

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SURREY

County, England

Ancestral GenSite(s)

Addington; Crowhurst

Addington

LOCATION:

Addington is a village in south London, England, in the London Borough of Croydon.

51°21′46″N 0°01′26″W / 51.3628°N 0.0240°W;

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FAMILY HISTORY NOTES(s): Robert d’ Aguillon and his wife Joan de Ferrers both died here. He in 1286, she in 1267. Their daughter Isabel d’ Aguillon was born here in 1258. Isabel married Hugh Bardolf at Addington. Their daughter Margery was born here in 1280.

INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Addington, London - Wikipedia; Addington Surrey through time; Addington, Surrey (UK Genealogy Archives); St Mary’s Church, Addington;

Crowhurst

LOCATION:

Crowhurst is a civil parish in Tandridge Borough Council in Surrey. It has a population of 349.

The parish lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Tandridge hundred.

51°14′20″N 0°02′05″W / 51.2389°N 0.0348°W

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FAMILY HISTORY NOTES(s): Gainsford (Gaynesford) family line known to be established here between at least 1315 -1424 and probably much longer.

INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Crowhurst Parish Council; Tandridge (district) - Wikipedia;

Tandridge (hundred) - Wikipedia

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SURREY,

England

List of Localities

The list below will assist in your research regarding the matching of your ancestors birth, marriage, death dates and in what locality of this county these events may have occurred. Source: Wikipedia

See List of places in Surrey

The largest town in Surrey is Guildford with 66,773; Woking is a close second with a population of 62,796. The third largest town is Ewell with 39,994 people to the north of the county and the fourth is Camberley with 30,155 people in the west of the county. Towns with between 25,000 and 30,000 are Ashford, Epsom, Farnham and Redhill.

DISTRICTS OF SURREY

Website Resources

We recommend that you use the following search engine and

external-links to obtain additional knowledge about this place.

General

· Website & Webpages We Like

· United Kingdom and Ireland - rootsweb.com

· GENUKI: UK & Ireland Genealogy

· UK Genealogy - The Portal for UK Family Research

· Street Map UK

· The Gazetteer of British Place Names - Main Page

· Ordnance Survey, Britain’s national mapping agency

· Cyndi’s List - United Kingdom & Ireland Index

· IGI Batch Numbers-British Isles & North America

· Genealogy SiteFinder: United Kingdom

· A vision of Britain (on-line library for local history)

· UK Genealogy Archives, Heraldry and Family History

· List of places in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

· Directory of Cities and Towns in United Kingdom

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SURREY,

England

Image Gallery

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