Burgess Hill St John, Sussex Genealogy

Guide to Burgess Hill St John, Sussex genealogy, ancestry and family history: parish registers, transcripts, census, birth, marriage, and death records.

Parish History
Burgess Hill St John the Evangelist is an Ecclesiastical parish formed to serve the development of Burgess Hill West Sussex.

A history of the Burgess Hill Church development is available at Sussex Parish Churches website Burgess Hill

Burgess Hill Wikipedia Burgess Hill West Sussex Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

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 The Family History Library has no parish register filming for this parish

Census Records
See Sussex Census

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
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.