Ewhurst, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
EWHURST (St. James), a parish, in the union of Battle, hundred of Staple, rape of Hastings, E. division of Sussex, 13 miles (S. E.) from Lamberhurst. At Staple Cross is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Ewhurst is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex which includes the settlements at Staplecross and Cripps Corner.

Ewhurst is an Ancient parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, which is formed around the main settlement of Ewhurst Green.

The church of St James Ewhurst Green has been designated a grade I listed building British listed building Ewhurst Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Staplecross St Mark was formed from within this parish Staplecross Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Staplecross St Mark Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Other places of worship include

Staplecross Wesleyan Methodist Church Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

list of places of worship in Rother Wikipedia See also Sussex Parish churches and Ewhurst Wikipedia

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.

This parish was part of Battle Registration District from 1837.

Certificates may be obtained from

East Sussex County Council

The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road Eastbourne BN21 4UG

Phone: 01323 464780

Fax: 01323 431386

Email:eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church records
Ewhurst parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).

Poor Law Unions
Battle 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