Iden, Sussex Genealogy

England Sussex  Sussex Parishes

Guide to Iden, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parishes
IDEN (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Rye, hundred of Goldspur, rape of Hastings, E. division of Sussex, 2¼ miles (N.) from Rye;Here is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Iden All Saints is an Ancient Parish; a history of the church is available at Sussex Parish Churches Iden All Saints The village and civil parish of Iden is in the Rother district of East Sussex.

The parish church of All Saints has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Iden Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

See Also Wikipedia

Civil Registration
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.

From 1837 this parish was within Rye Registration district, from 1935 this was incorporated into Battle Registration district Certiificates 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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Poor Law Unions
Rye Poor Law Union, Sussex

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Iden/