Rottingdean, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
ROTTINGDEAN (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Newhaven, hundred of Younsmere, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 4 miles (E.) from Brighton. It is also a civil parish. The village, in ancient records termed Rottington, is pleasantly situated near the coast, on the Newhaven road.

The Anglican Parish of St Margaret is an Ancient Parish and parts of the nave of the building date from the 12th century. The history of the Church is described at Sussex Parish Churches Brighton and Hove St Margaret Rottingdean

The Parish church on The Green has been designated as a Grade II* listed building Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Other places of worship in Rottingdean include

Former Balsdean Chapel see Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Our Lady of Lourdes, Queen of Peace (Roman Catholic) Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Roedean School Chapel Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) St Dunstan's Chapel [http://www.sussex-opc.org/index.php?p=449&amp;k=1157&amp;t=Church+ Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)) St Martha, Star of the Sea Convent Chapel (Roman Catholic)

Woodingdean is an eastern suburb of the city of Brighton and Hove Woodingdean Wikipedia Woodingdean was formed from the ancient parish of Rottingdean. Woodingdean Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Other places of worship in Woodingdean include

Former Chapel Holy Cross (Anglican) Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Kingdom Hall Methodist Church St Patrick 9Roman Catholic) Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

list of places to worship in Brighton and Hove Wikipedia

See also Rottingdean Wikipedia and St Margaret Rottingdean Wikipedia

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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 Lewes Registration District Certificates may be obtained from East Sussex The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone: 01323 464780 Fax: 01323 431386 Email:eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers -Sussex ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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