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This project is sub-project of the Heraldic Visitations of England and Wales Project. See the main project page for more info: Heraldic Visitations of England and Wales
This project catalogues all the families recorded in the following publication:
Bannerman, W.B., ed. (1899). The Visitations of the County of Surrey made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; 1572 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1623 by Samuel Thompson, Windsor Herald, and Augustin Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant, marshals and deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 43. London.
Descendants researching families in the Visitation are encouraged to join and help add other family members listed in the visitation.
Surrey families chronicled in this Visitation. The links go to the most recent generation chronicled in the Visitation. In other words, the family actually visited by the King of Arms:
- Abbott
- Abdey
- Adye
- Agmondisham
- Albany
- Alleyn
- Angell
- Apjohn
- Ap Powell
- Aston
- Austen
- Banister
- Barnesley
- Battell
- Beale
- Bedo
- Bell
- Bennett
- Bickerstaffe
- Bingham
- Bludder
- Bodley
- Bond
- Boteler
- Bowyer
- Bradbridge
- Braham
- Bray
- Brereton
- Brooker
- Browne
- Bruyn
- Buckle
- Bungey
- Burgh
- Burley
- Burrell
- Burshell
- Burton
- Butts
- Bydon
- Byllett
- Bynd
- Byrley
- Bysshe
- Cage
- Campion
- Carew
- Carique
- Carrell
- Castilton
- Cely
- Champion
- Cherry
- Child
- Cholmely
- Clarke
- Clifton
- Coe
- Coke
- Coldham
- Cole
- Comber
- Cooper
- Copley
- Cory
- Couper
- Covert
- Cure
- Dallender or De La River
- Day
- De Lisle
- Diggs
- Dod
- Downe
- Drake
- Dubber
- Duke
- Duncombe
- Elliott
- Engler
- Evelyn
- Farrant
- Faunt
- Feake
- Ferrar
- Finch
- Fitz-Williams
- Floyd
- Fortescue
- Fromonde
- Fulwer
- Gardiner
- Garraway
- Garth
- Gavell
- Gaynsford
- Gibson
- Goodwin
- Gopill
- Gresham
- Griffin
- Grymes
- Hall
- Harper
- Harris
- Hatton
- Hawes
- Hawle
- Hayward
- Hebbs
- Hendley
- Heron
- Herward
- Hobbs
- Hodgson
- Holman
- Holmeden
- Hoord
- Hoskins
- Howland
- Hull
- Huntley
- Illingworth
- James
- Jay
- Jones
- Jordan
- Kempe
- Lambert
- Latton
- Lechford
- Leigh
- Levesey
- Litton
- Lloyd
- Lovell
- Lusher
- Lydcott
- Lysley
- Marbury
- Marshall
- Martyn
- Merehurst
- Midleton
- Millett
- Monckton
- Moore
- Morgan
- Morton
- Moys
- Mulcaster
- Muschampe
- Myn or Mynd
- Myngay
- Mynterne
- Newdigate
- Nicholson
- Offley
- Onslow
- Pakington
- Parkhurst
- Paule
- Pett
- Pike
- Pistor
- Pompelion
- Pouncett
- Powell
- Price
- Purse
- Quennell
- Rawlins
- Raymond
- Reade
- Reynell
- Richardson
- Rosethorne
- Rowland
- Roydon
- Rutland
- Ryeth or Rythe
- Ryther
- Sands
- Saunders
- Sayer
- Scott
- Sepham
- Shaw
- Sheppard
- Skinner
- Sliffield
- Smallpiece
- Smyth
- Snelling
- Spurstowe
- Stoughton
- Streete
- Stydolf
- Tanner
- Therland
- Thorne
- Throgmorton alias Carew
- Tichborne
- Tipton
- Tirrell
- Troches
- Tuesley
- Tufton
- Tunstall
- Turner
- Urrick
- Vincent
- Vyne
- Walsingham
- Walter
- Warham
- Warnet
- Weaver
- Westbrook
- Weston
- Whitfield
- Widnell
- Wight
- Wilford
- Windsor
- Wintersell
- Woodman
- Woodroffe
- Woodward
- Wormall
- Wright
- Wyat
- Wylde
- Wyvell
- Young
Caution
Visitations are an excellent way of identifying medieval and Tudor ancestors. Care should be taken with them however, as they were often based on family memory and contain errors.
As with all sources used in tracing your family history, whenever possible the information gained should be used to direct you to other contemporary sources (such as wills, inquisitions post mortem, etc.), so you can verify what you have found out.