Lindfield, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Lindfield All Saints is an Ancient Parish in West Sussex.Other places in the parish include: Lunt, Gravelys, Townsland, Wickham, Scaynes Hill, Buxshalls, Walsted, Scrace Bridge, and Beadle Hill.

history of Lindfield All Saints

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

See: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 87-95. URL: here See alsoLindfield 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.

Church records
Lindfield All Saints

West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1558-1974 Marr 1559-1960 Bur 1559-1929 Bishop's Transcripts 1662-1894

Contact West Sussex Record Office 3 Orchard Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1DD Phone: 01243 753602 Fax: 01243 533959 Email: records.office@westsussex.gov.uk

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

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Cuckfield 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
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