Hellingly, Sussex Genealogy

England Sussex   Sussex Parishes

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

Parish History
Hellingly (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Hailsham, hundred of Dill, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 2 miles (N. by W.) from Hailsham.

Hellingly St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex.

A history of the church Hellingly St Peter and St Paul

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul Hellingly has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Hellingly Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Hellingly Sussex Wikipedia a list of places to worship in Wealden 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.

For civil registration history see Hailsham registration district Certificates may be obtained from East Sussex,The Register Office, Town Hall, Grove Road, Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone 01323 464780Fax 01323 431386 email eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

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
Hailsham 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/Hellingly/