Hastings St Mary Magdalen, Sussex Genealogy

England Sussex  Sussex Parishes

Parish History
Hastings St Mary Magdalen is an Ancient Parish.

A history of the church is available at Sussex Parish Churches Hastings St Mary Magdalen St Margaret's Road

The church of St Mary Magdalen St Margaret's Road Hastings has been designated asa grade C listed building British listed building

Hastings St Mary Magdalen Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) The OPC for Hastings Chris Swarbrooke Web site:Hastings OPC

see also Hastings Places of worship 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.

Church records
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Poor Law Unions
Hastings 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
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