Salehurst, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Salehurst St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish in the Rother district of East Sussex which included

Rotherbridge, Robertsbridge, and Hurst Green within the parish boundary. Part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbour Hawkhurst, Kent The civil parish is salehurst and Robertsbridge, see Salehurst and Robertsbridge Wikipedia

From this parish due to the distance from the parish church a mission room was developed at Robertsbridge.

A history of the church and Mission room Salehurst St Mary and Robertsbridge Mission

The Parish church of St Mary has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Salehurst 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 Ticehurst registration district

Church records
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
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Ticehurst 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

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