Hastings St Mary Bulverhythe, Sussex Genealogy

Guide to Hastings St Mary Bulverhythe, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BULVERHYTHE (St. Mary), an ancient parish, and a member of the town and port of Hastings, in the union and rape of Hastings, hundred of Bexhill, E. division of Sussex, 1½ mile (E.) from Bexhill.

Hastings St Mary Bulverhythe is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

The ruins of the church are referred to in an introduction to Hastings Parish Churches Hastings St Mary ruins see also Hastings Places of worship Wikipedia and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 428-431. here



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Civil Registration
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Church Records
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Church of England
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Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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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Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Hastings/