Colgate, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Colgate St Saviour is an Ecclesiastical Parish formed from Rusper, Sussex The church of St Saviour was dedicated in 1879 (built 1868-1871) The village and civil parish of Colgate are in the Horsham district of West Sussex

A history of the church is available at Sussex Parish Churches Colgate St Saviour

Colgate Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Colgate West Sussex Wikipedia

Mar's Hill Baptist Chapel see List of demolished worship places in 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.

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

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

Websites
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.