East Blatchington, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex

Parish History
East Blatchington St Peter is an Ancient parish.

BLATCHINGTON, or BLETCHINGTON, EAST (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Newhaven,hundred of Flexborough, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, ¼ of a mile (N.) from Seaford; containing 163 inhabitants. It comprises by measurement 700acres, of which 405 are arable, and 295 pasture; and is bounded on the south by the English Channel, and intersected by the road from Newhaven to Seaford. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £14; net income, £88; patron, the Rev. R. N.Dennis. The church is a neat edifice in the early English style of architecture.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 279-282. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50807 Date accessed: 01 May 2011.

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
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Census records
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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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Web sites
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