Eastbourne St Mary, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex

Parish History
Eastbourne St Mary in Church Street is an Ancient Parish and a market town in East Sussex. Other places in the parish include: Sea Houses and Meads.

The Ancient parish should not be confused with Eastbourne St Mary Hampden Park or Eastbourne St Mary Wiilingdon.

The church of Saint mary in Church Street old Town has been designated a grade B listed building British listed building

history and images

For gazetteer entry See A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 124-127. here

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
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
Eastbourne 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

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