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Camberwell Reg Dist marriages - please check your certificates
« on: Sunday 29 August 10 08:19 BST (UK) »
If you have any certificates for marriages that took place in Camberwell Registration District from 1837 to 1854, can you please check if the marriage took place at Hanover Chapel, Peckham, and send me details if so?

I am currently transcribing the baptism register for Hanover Chapel, kept by Rev. Dr. William Bengo Collyer from 1801 to 1837.  About 200 entries are on my website as is the beginnings of an index of witnesses, and more will be posted as I continue to transcribe.  Though the chapel was based in Peckham, then Surrey but now south-east London, the register features baptisms of people from further afield including Bristol and Leicestershire, so it might be of broader interest.  It appears that the baptism register is the only one to have survived from Dr. Collyer's time although the chapel was solemnized for marriages in 1837.  I have managed to find references to a small handful of marriages performed at the chapel from newspaper announcements. 
 
Does anyone on this message board have any marriage certificates (up to 1854) that show a Hanover Chapel marriage?  If so, can they please send me details either via a message here or via my website - which is: www.wbcollyer.org
 
Any other info about Dr. Collyer would be gratefully received as would any comments about the site (bearing in mind that it is a work in progress).
 
Many thanks,
 
Mark, Yetminster, Dorset

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Re: Camberwell Reg Dist marriages - please check your certificates
« Reply #1 on: Monday 15 November 10 15:09 GMT (UK) »
I am assuming you have contacted Peckham Library where they may have some information, though they may advise that you contact:

The Southwark Local/Family History Group  they meet in the Harvard Library, Borough High Street, they too may be able to assist with this research.  They do have some very good historians amongst their members.
And they do have their own website.

They have helped me in the past with research of my own.

I used to work in the Post Office in Peckham High Street, and know the outside of the Chapel, which is still visible.  And I also visited the Delivery Office and their is a good view of the back of this building from their van park which is above ground level.
Fleming (Bristol) Fowler/Brain (Battersea/Bristol)    Simpson (Fulham/Clapham)  Harrison (W.London, Fulham, Clapham)  Earl & Butler  (Dublin,New Ross: Ireland)  Humphrey (All over mainly London) Hill (Reigate, Bletchingly, Redhill: Surrey)
Sell (Herts/Essex/W. London)