A guide to churches and graveyards in Surrey for family historians
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WSFHS has no Monumental Inscription records for Godalming Quaker Meeting House.
Friends of Surrey Cemeteries (Surrey Cemeteries: a survey, 2012): Text from the survey is reproduced with permission. Possibly the garden area was a burial ground as in Dorking. The other alternative is that Binscombe was used however this is at odds with the reference below to 137 burials as Binscombe notes refer to 161 burials there.
The Meeting House is in the Ancient ParishAn Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions. of Godalming St Peter and St Paul. The Surrey Monumental Inscriptions Index has around 1100 names for St Peter and St Paul Godalming. The inscriptions were collected for WSFHS in 1984 by Alan & Kathleen Benny, We have also acquired an digital copy of Cokayne,G.E. Surrey parish registers & MI's, Volume IV which includes some Godalming St Peter and Paul MIs. This has not yet been transcribed.
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Search the Surrey Index of Names (opens in new browser window) or contact me if you have a question not answered in the Surrey Index of Names or in our Frequently Asked Questions Contact us West Surrey Family History Society CD10(Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for
WSFHS CD15 (Surrey Baptisms Not in the IGI) has Baptismal records for
WSFHS CD30 (Ancient Parishes in the Guildford district) has baptismal records for Godalming St Peter and St Paul for 1582 to 1840, Marriages for 1583 to 1837 and Burials for 1583 to 1840. See the WSFHS sales page for more information (opens in a new page). Godalming is a (civil) parishA civil parish is the lowest tier of local government in England. In urban areas it may be called a town council. Not all areas have parish or town councils. [NB Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have different systems of local government.] in the Waverley district of Surrey.
Unless otherwise stated the dates for the creation of parishes are taken from Youngs, Frederick. A., Guide to the Administrative Units of England; Royal Historical Society: London, 1979 volume 1 Southern England.
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