Gerrard’s Cross, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide

Gerrard’s Cross is a chapelry of Chalfont St Peter Ancient Parish, Fulmer Ancient Parish, Iver Ancient Parish, Langley Marish chapelry, and Upton cum Chalvey Ancient Parish in Buckinghamshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1861
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1861

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Langley Marish
• Fulmer
• Denham
• Hedgerley
• West Hyde, Hertfordshire
• Chalfont St Peter

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GERRARDS-CROSS, a village and a chapelry in Fulmer parish, Bucks. The village stands 3 miles ESE of Beaconsfield, and 6 N by E of Slough r. station; and has a post-office under Slough. The chapelry was recently constituted, and does not appear to have defined limits. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £136. Patrons, the Misses Reid. The church is a memorial one to Major-General Reid, by his sisters, the Misses Reid; stands on a wide common; was built in 1859, after designs by Tite; and is in a style travestied from the Lombardic.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Buckinghamshire, Gerrard’s Cross – Directories ( 1 )
Illustrated directory of Gerrards Cross with parts of theparishes of Fulmer and Chalfont St. Peter

England, Buckinghamshire, Gerrard’s Cross – Schools ( 1 )
Ancillae Domini : St. Mary’s School and Training College, Paddington, Lancaster Gate, Gerrards Cross
Author: Covernton, E. E.; St. Mary’s School & Training College

Administration

• County: Buckinghamshire
• Civil Registration District: Amersham; Eton
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
• Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Oxford
• Rural Deanery: Burnham
• Poor Law Union: Eton
• Hundred: Burnham; Stoke
• Province: Canterbury