Districts and Sub Districts for SouthwarkWhen Civil Registration started on 1 July 1837, present day Southwark comprised five separate Registration Districts.
- St Saviour
- St George The Martyr
- Newington
- St Olave
- Camberwell
Each Registration District (RD) was headed by a Superintendent Registrar and subdivided for Births and Deaths geographically into Sub Districts (SD)
Births and deaths
St Saviour RD (1837-1870), then part of Southwark RD
- Christchurch SD (1837- Jul 1906)
- St Saviour SD (1837- Jul 1906)
- Christchurch and St Saviour SD (Aug 1906-Mar 1924)
St George the Martyr RD (1837-1870), then part of Southwark RD
- Kent Road SD (1837-Dec 1914)
- Borough Road SD (1837-Jun 1903)
- London Road SD (1837-Jun 1903)
- St George the Martyr West SD (Jul 1903-Dec 1914)
- St George the Martyr SD (Jan1915-Mar 1924)
Newington RD (1837-1870), then part of Southwark RD
- Trinity Newington SD (1837-Feb 1904)
- St Paul Newington SD (1837-Feb 1904)
- St Mary Newington SD (1837 Feb 1904)
- Newington North SD (Mar 1904-Jun 1925)
- Newington South SD (Mar 1904-Jun 1925)
- Newington SD (Jul 1925-Jun 1970)
- North Southwark SD (Apr 1924-Mar 1965) Guys Hospital births
- Guys SD (Apr 1965-Dec 1974) hospital births
- Southwark SD (Jul 1970-Dec 1974)
St Olave Bermondsey RD (1837-1965)
- Leather Market SD (1837-Aug 1894)
- St Mary Magdalene SD (1837-Aug 1894)
- Leather Market SD (Sep 1894-Aug 1898)
- St James SD (1837-Aug 1898)
- St Olave and St Thomas SD (1837-Aug 1859)
- St Olave SD (Feb 1883 – Mar 1916)
- Bermondsey SD (Apr 1916-Mar 1965)
- Rotherhithe SD (1837-Mar 1965) ST Olave hospital births
- Bermondsey New Guys House SD (Private Hospital Births) (Jun 1961-Jun 1962)
- Bermondsey SD (Apr1965- Jun 1970)
- Guys SD (Apr 1965-Dec 1974) hospital births
- Newington SD (-Jun 1970) HOME BIRTHS
- Southwark SD (Jul 1970-Dec 1974) HOME BIRTHS
- Unified Registrars A and B (Jan 1975 – Sep 1991)
Camberwell RD (1837-1991)
- St George SD (1837-Sep 1918)
- North Camberwell SD (Oct 1918-Dec 1948)
- Camberwell SD (1837-Mar 1904)
- Camberwell North SD (Apr 1904-Sep 1918)
- Camberwell South SD (Apr 1904-Sep 1918)
- North West Camberwell SD (Oct 1918-Dec 1960) hospital births
- St Giles SD (Jan 1961-Sep 1968) hospital births
- Peckham SD (1837-Mar 1904)
- Peckham North SD (Dec 1905-Sep 1918)
- Peckham South SD (Dec 1905-Sep 1918)
- Peckham SD (Oct 1918-Dec 1948)
- North East Camberwell SD (Jan 1949-Dec 1960)
- Camberwell SD (Jan 1961-Sep 1968)
- Dulwich SD (1837-Sep 1918)
- East Dulwich SD (Oct 1918-Aug 1926)
- Dulwich SD (Sep 1926-Sep 1968) hospital births
Camberwell was unified in Oct 1968 with Registrars A B C
There are Annual Indexes from this date to 1991 when all were unified on 1 October 1991 with Southwark Registration District.
Marriage Records
Marriages are arranged by Building for Anglican (Church of England) Churches. All other marriages with the exceptions of Jews and Quakers (i.e. Nonconformists such as Baptists, Methodists and Catholics), before 1898 were registered in the presence of a Registrar, and will be found in the appropriate area “Register Office Marriages”. However those pre 1870 registers for St Saviour, Newington and St George the Martyr RDs have been renumbered in one series together as “Southwark Register Office”.
After 1898 Non Anglican Churches and Chapels could apply to have their own Authorised Person (AP) and registers but few (with the exception of Methodists) generally did until the 1950’s and following industrial action by registrars in the 1980s.
Contacts
The General Register Office (ONS)
Tel: 0845 603 7788
www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content
Smedley Hydro
Trafalgar Road
Birkdale
Southport
PR8 2HH
Contact us
Southwark Register Office
Tel: 020 7525 7651 (or 020 7525 5000 in an out of hours emergency)
Fax: 020 7525 7652
registrars@southwark.gov.uk
34 Peckham Road
London SE5 8QA
Regular opening hours: 9.30am to 4pm, Monday to Friday
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