Newhaven, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Sussex Parishes



Parish History
NEWHAVEN (St. Michael), a parish and seaport, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Holmstrow, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 7 miles (S.) from Lewes, 9 (E. S. E.) from Brighton, and 58 (S.) from London; The union of Newhaven comprises 16 parishes or places.

Newhaven St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the town of Newhaven in the Lewes District of East Sussex.

The history of both the Ancient Parish Church of St Michael and Christ Church formed in 1881 asa mission church for part of the town is described at Sussex Parish Churches Newhaven St Michale and Christ Church The modern parish is shared by the Church of England and Methodist communities.The Roman Catholic church is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.

Newhaven Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) has a history of the parish

The Church of St Michael has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

other places of worship in Newhaven include

Baptist Church Calvinistic Baptist Chapel Cemetery Chapel Christ Church Congregational Chapel Convent of the Sacred Heart Chapel Countess of Huntingdon Elim Pentecostal Church Methodist Church Primitive Methodist Church Sacred Heart (Roman Catholic)

See also Newhaven Wikipedia list of places to worship in Lewes 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 in Lewes Registration District Certificates may be obtained from East Sussex 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:

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

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

Census records
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to locate outside UK. Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

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

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search.

Poor Law Unions
Newhaven 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.

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