Crowborough All Saints and St Richard, Sussex Genealogy

England Sussex

Parish History
Crowborough is a town in the Wealden district of East Sussex and the town is on the edge of the Ashdown Forest. See Crowborough Wikipedia and Wikipedia list of places of worship in Wealden

The parish of All Saints was formed from the earlier chapelry of the same name in Rotherfield, Sussex Ancient Parish and the parish dates from the 1881-1883 rebuilding.

From this parish was formed the chapel of St John see Withyham,_Sussex for a history of this part of the Crowborough parish.

The history of the parish and the subsequent St Richard Alderbrook are contained at Sussex Parish churches Crowborough All Saints and St Richard

Crowborough All Saints 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
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
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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.