Hastings St Clement Halton, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex

Parish History
Hastings St Clement, Halton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Sussex, created in 1839 from Hastings St Clement, Sussex Ancient Parish.

A district church has been erected in Hatton Field, near the barracks, in the parish of St. Clement's,at an expense of £2000, raised by subscription, aided by grants from the Incorporated Society and the Diocesan Association; it was consecrated on the 10th Dec. 1838,and is a neat edifice in the early English style, containing 542 sittings, of which 362 are free. The living is aperpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Bishop ofChichester; the income partly arises from an endowment of £1000 by Mrs. Milward, who also granted the site, and contributed largely to the erection of thechurch. There are places of worship for Baptists, Huntingtonians, Independents, and Wesleyans; and the Roman Catholics have purchased nine acres of land close to the sea, between Hastings and St. Leonard's, on which they have erected a chapel, &amp;c.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 435-441. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51013 Date accessed: 02 May 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Hastings 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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Web sites
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