Sedlescombe, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Sedlescombe, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Sedlescombe, Sussex | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Staple |
| County | Sussex |
| Poor Law Union | Battle |
| Registration District | Battle |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1559 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1607 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Dallington |
| Diocese | Chichester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes |
| Location of Archive | |
| Sussex Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
SEDLESCOMB (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Battle, hundred of Staple, rape of Hastings, E. division of Sussex, 3 miles (N. E.) from Battle. The church is principally in the early English style, and was enlarged in 1838 by the erection of a south aisle. The Wesleyans have a place of worship.[1]
Church history Sedlescombe St John the Baptist
The church of St John the Baptist has been designated a grade II* listed building British listed building
Sedlescombe Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) includes other places of worship
Congregational Chapel
Mission Chapel
Second Congregational Chapel
Wesleyan Chapel
See Wikipedia and list of places of worship in Rother
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
This parish was part of Battle Registration District from 1837.
Certificates may be obtained from
East Sussex County Council
The Register Office
Town Hall
Grove Road
Eastbourne
BN21 4UG
Phone: 01323 464780
Fax: 01323 431386
Email:eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk
Church records[edit | edit source]
Sedlescombe parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Sedlescombe Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS PRs | 1538-1910 | 1538-1910 | 1538-1910 | |||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| OPC | 1538-1800s | 1538-1800s | 1538-1800s | |||
| FREG | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | |||
| FMP | 1530-1990 | |||||
| TGEN | 1538-1920s | 1538-1920s | 1538-1920s | |||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Sussex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Sedlescombe/
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 44-48. Date accessed: 30 September 2013
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Sussex) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
