Kingston by Ferring, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Kingston by Ferring, a parish. It comprises three settlements: East Kingston, West Kingston, and Kingston Gorse.

This parish should not be confused with Kingston Buci (Kingston by Sea), Sussex 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

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.

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
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/KingstonbySea/