Upper Dicker Common, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
DICKER (Upper), a village in Arlington parish, and a chapelry in Arlington, Chiddingly, and Hellingly parishes, Sussex. The village stands near the river Cuckmere, 2½ miles NNE of Berwick railway station, and 3 W by N of Hailsham. The chapelry bears the name of Upper Dicker Common.

Upper Dicker Holy Trinity was formed in 1843 as an Ecclesiastical district mainly from Arlington, Sussex but also parts of Hellingly, Sussex and Chiddingly, Sussex and in 1857 became an Ecclesistical parish.The civil parish of Arlington includes the enclosure of the former Common and village of Upper Dicker and is in the Wealden district of East Sussex.

A history of the church Upper Dicker Holy Trinity

See Simon Carey's history of the area Arlington and Upper and Lower Dicker

Upper Dicker Sussex online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Arlington Wikipedia for the history of the village and civil parish. list of places of worship in Wealden 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.

For civil registration history see Hailsham registration district Certificates may be obtained from East Sussex,The Register Office, Town Hall, Grove Road, Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone 01323 464780Fax 01323 431386 email eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church records
Upper Dicker Common parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).

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

Poor Law Unions
Hailsham 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