Brighton St John the Evangelist, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Brighton St John the Evangelist

Parish History
Brighton St John the Evangelist is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Sussex, created in 1840 from Brighton St Nicholas, Sussex Ancient Parish

A history of the church Brighton St John the Evangelist Palmeira Square

The church of St John the Evangelist Preston has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building and dates from 1901-1902

Brighton Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also:

An introduction to Brighton's church history Brighton churches and Brighton and Hove Wikipedia

A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 369-375. here

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 the Brighton registration distict

Certificates can be ordered from Brighton &amp; Hove The Register Office Brighton Town Hall Bartholomew Square Brighton BN1 1JA

Phone01273 292016

Fax 01273 292019

Email:register.office@brighton hove.gov.uk

Church records
West Sussex Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts 1880

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

Poor Law Unions
Brighton 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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