Civil Registration commenced in England and Wales in 1837. For events before this you should pursue your research elsewhere. To help we have provided some internet site suggestions below:

The Registers held at Wandsworth Register Office are for births, deaths and marriages only.

The information in the registers is available only in the form of a certified copy of the entry. Certificates carry a statutory fee - currently £7 each.

To apply for a certificate online, please visit our certificate ordering pages. In addition to your personal details, the date and location of the event should also be provided to enable us find the certificate that you want.

The registers held at this office cover the area now within the London Borough of Wandsworth including Putney, Roehampton, Wandsworth, Southfields, Earlsfield, Battersea, Tooting and parts of Balham, Streatham, and Clapham. Please note that most of Clapham is in the Borough of Lambeth.

View a list of other south London register offices

A birth, marriage or death will be registered in the district where it actually occurred which will not necessarily be same as the persons residence at the time.

Searches through the indexes held here may be made in person. The fee is currently £18. Please make an appointment if you wish to make a search and note that we are not able to search on your behalf and the indexes are for Wandsworth District only. Information is provided only in the form of certificates from the entry for which the usual fee is payable.

If you know the date of the event but not where it occurred, a certificate may be obtained by personal application:

• Online, at www.ips.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates, this is the cheapest and quickest method of applying from GRO.
• By post from GRO, PO Box 2, Southport. Merseyside, PR8 2JD, please telephone the Contact Centre on 0845 603 7788 to request an application form,
• If you have a credit or debit card you can order a certificate over the telephone via the GRO Contact Centre on  0845 603 7788,
• From the local register office in the district where the event was registered.

Copies of this Index are held at many Family History Centres, County Record Offices and Reference Libraries around the world.

Further sources of information which may be of help to you

Wandsworth Heritage Service at:

Battersea Library,
265 Lavender Hill,
London SW11 1JB.
Old Parish registers, local newspapers, some cemetery records. 1992 edition of IGI etc
www.wandsworth.gov.uk/museum and click on Local History  

London Metropolian Archives,
40 Northampton Road,
London EC1R 0HB
Many Wandsworth parish records, electoral registers, records of schools and hospitals
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma  

Information about searching Burial and Cremation Registers is at www.wandsworth.gov.uk/cemeteries  

Our suggestions for genealogical information online

www.bbc.co.uk/familyhistory
www.genuki.org.uk
www.familyrecords.gov.uk
www.origins.net
www.familysearch.org
www.sog.org.uk

Our suggestions for accessing indexes

www.freebmd.org.uk
www.1837online.com
this site now includes access to 1861 census returns, initially to cover only parts of the Country but areas will be added until the entire census is available.

Our suggestions for Census information

www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk (1901)
www.ancestry.co.uk (1891)
www.familysearch.org (1881)

Our suggestions for records before 1837

www.familysearch.org
IGL Index for some parish registers from 1538 to 1837
www.englishorigins.com
incl.Boyd's Marriage index of over 7 million marriages
www.ancestry.co.uk
incl.City of London Parish marriage index 1730 to 1837

Our suggestions for accessing local registers
(see above for Wandsworth registers access)

www.familysearch.org
www.sog.org.uk/prc
incl. list of registers available at Society of Genealogists
www.gro.gov.uk
this page includes a system for you to search for a local register office address and information if you supply a post code. You can then link in to the local website.

Our suggestions for finding your local organisations to help your research

www.genuki.org.uk
incl. list of local record offices
www.familia.org.uk
incl. a directory of information available in local libraries
www.ffhs.org.uk
incl. list of local family history socities


Our suggestions for other sources of helpful information:

Historical Manuscript Commission and Public Record Office www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
National Archives online www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk
Public Record Office www.pro.gov.uk
British Library www.bl.uk
British Newspaper Library www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org
1901 Census web site www.census.pro.gov.uk

Our suggestions for Ireland

www.igrsoc.org
www.groireland.ie
www.nationalarchives.ie
www.groni.gov.uk
www.proni.gov.uk

Our suggestions for Scotland

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
www.gro-scotland.gov.uk
www.nas.gov.uk

Our suggestions for Wales

www.llgc.org.uk