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Thanks, Kate, but how annoying; the only parish I'm interested in is Penge, and it isn't there
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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.
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Yes, I know there's some overlap with Kent; apparently earlier marriages are likely to be found in Beckenham.
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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.
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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.
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The births/baptisms I'm interested in date from the 1850s.
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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.
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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! |
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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.
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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.
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