Streat, Sussex Genealogy

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Parish History
STREET, a parish, in the union of Chailey, hundred of Street, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 6¾ miles (N. W.) from Lewes. It is situated on the road from Lewes to Ditchelling. The church is an ancient structure of flint, containing several monuments to the Dobell family and others.

Church history Streat

The Parish church in Streat Lane has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Streat Sussex Parish Clerks online (OPC)

list of places of worship in Lewes district

See also Streat 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.

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

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
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The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. 

Genealogy
Burchall. Michael J. A Tillinghast Genealogy. A discussion of the Tillinghast family descending from John Tillinghast and Alice Pardon mainly two sons, Pardon, 1601 and John 1604. Surnames mentioned are Tichborne, Batnor, Browne, Leehford and Fenner. Article covers years 1230-1645. Article to be found in the magazine, Sussex Family Historian, vol.1. #3, Dec. 1973. pages 51-59. Family History Library Ref. 942.52 B2su.

Burchall, Michael J. Tillinghurst Genealogy (continued). A genealogy of the descendants of Robert Tillinghurst of Streat/Street, buried 1613, article covers years 1613-1718, Surnames mentioned are Hosmer, Hurst, Pardon, Picknoll, Waller, Tichbourne, Geere, Dalleg, Bridge, Saxby, Archer, Cox, Browne, Lechford, Butterworth and Taber. Article in Sussex Family Historian vol. 1, #4, March 1974, pages 85-88, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 B2su

Poor Law Unions
Chailey 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.

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