Thanks, Kate, but how annoying; the only parish I'm interested in is Penge, and it isn't there :(

Me too but the registration district is Croydon I know Penge got a bit confusing with the county changes in 1899 so it was in Surrey and then in Kent so there's probably a dispute on who owns the records. Some records I've found are now in the Bromley, Kent boundary for some reason.

Yes, I know there's some overlap with Kent; apparently earlier marriages are likely to be found in Beckenham.

I'm really curious to find out why several people from one of my Yorkshire families moved to Penge in the 1860s. It seems like an odd place to go.

Penge is such a modern parish that many of the records may still be with the incumbent (they certainly were twenty years ago) with copies in Bromley library.

Originally the area was a detached part of Battersea.

The births/baptisms I'm interested in date from the 1850s.

Hmm. St John the Evangelist, created from Battersea 1851.

Bromley Library.

Greater London is neither fish nor fowl: not LMA nor SHC. Though Croydon isn't a diocesan office, so its records are at the SHC.

Mary, I'm also interested in Penge records.

OH's great-great-grandparents, George Herbert and Emily Newton, married at St John the Evangelist, Penge, and had three children in Penge. The years were 1878, 1879 and 1880, and I don't have baptisms for any of them.

We go to Chislehurst once a week and went to Bromley yesterday, so I will have to investigage the library. If I go I'll let you know and I can see if I can find anything for you, but I will be accompanied by a 3-year-old, so it depends on the forbearance of my OH and grandson!

Next month my journey to a client will pass the church on a daily basis. That bit of Penge is rather attractive, complete with almshouses.

We visited the church 6 years ago and found the house where OH's family lived. It was in Selby Road, and we believe that his great-great-grandfather designed it as it was new when they moved in and he was an architect. I have a few photos of it and it has 1877 on the front wall.