Ifield, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Ifield



Parish History
Ifield St Margaret of Antioch is an Ancient Parish in West Sussex, part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbour Charlwood, Surrey

Ifield is a former village now a neighbourhood in the town of the Crawley West Sussex, see Ifield West Sussex and St Margaret Ifield Wikipedia

The history of the church is found at Sussex Parish Churches Ifield St Margaret

Other places of worship in Ifield include:

Elim Pentecostal Church, Langley Green Freinds Meeting House Our Lady Queen of Heaven, Langley Green St Alban, Gossops Green St Leonard, Langley Green

St Mary Magdalene, Bewbush St Theodore of Canterbury, Gossops Green Trinity United Reformed Church

see Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) Ifield West Sussex

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 in the Horsham registration district Certificates can be ordered from West Sussex Centralised Certificates Office Registration Service West Sussex Record Office County Hall Chichester PO19 1RN Phone: 01243 642122

Church records
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Horsham 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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