Frant, Sussex Genealogy

Frant, Sussex
	; Frant St Alban East Sussex
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Rotherfield
County	Kent
Poor Law Union	Ticehurst
Registration District	Ticehurst
Records begin
	Parish registers: 1543
	Bishop's Transcripts: 1598
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Pevensey
Diocese	Chichester
Province	Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
Location of Archive
	Kent Record Office
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Guide to Frant, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

The Ancient Parish of St Alban was partly in Kent and partly in Sussex and included Hawkenbury. The Local Government Act 1894 required county boundaries and ecclesiastical boundaries to be aligned and the larger part of the parish was in Sussex. Prior to 1894 the parish may be referred to as in Kent (part)

The church of St Alban is part of the Frant with Eridge benefice in the Diocese of Chichester, Rotherfield Deanery.The village and civil parish of Frant is in the Wealden district of East Sussex Frant Wikipedia a list of places to worship in Wealden Wikipedia

A history of the church and parish is available at Sussex Parish Churches Frant St Alban

The church of St Alban has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

Frant Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC) redirects to this page.

ResourcesEdit

Civil RegistrationEdit

For civil registration history see Ticehurst registration district

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.

Church RecordsEdit

Frant, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)^[2]
FMP = findmypast - (£)^[3]^[4]
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free^[5]

Frant, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
BIVRI	1604-1627, 1880-1887		1539-1754, 1881-1886
FMP	1545-1881		1544-1881
IGI	1543-1881		1543-1881

Family History Library film numbers
Frant

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

Census recordsEdit

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 UnionsEdit

Ticehurst Poor Law Union, Sussex

Probate recordsEdit

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Kent 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 GazetteersEdit

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

WebsitesEdit

ReferencesEdit

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 259-263. Date accessed: 27 September 2013
↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 30 December 2013.
↑ 'Frant, Sussex, Baptisms, Coverage', findmypast, accessed 30 December 2013.
↑ 'Billingshurst, Sussex, Marriages, Coverage', findmypast, accessed 31 December 2013.
↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Sussex, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 3 January 2014.

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 259-263. Date accessed: 27 September 2013

[2] 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 30 December 2013.

[3] 'Frant, Sussex, Baptisms, Coverage', findmypast, accessed 30 December 2013.

[4] 'Billingshurst, Sussex, Marriages, Coverage', findmypast, accessed 31 December 2013.

[5] Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Sussex, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 3 January 2014.

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