Newhaven, Sussex Genealogy

Guide to Newhaven, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
NEWHAVEN (St. Michael), a parish and seaport, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Holmstrow, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 7 miles (S.) from Lewes, 9 (E. S. E.) from Brighton, and 58 (S.) from London; The union of Newhaven comprises 16 parishes or places.

Newhaven St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the town of Newhaven in the Lewes District of East Sussex.

The history of both the Ancient Parish Church of St Michael and Christ Church formed in 1881 as a mission church for part of the town is described at Sussex Parish Churches Newhaven St Michale and Christ Church The modern parish is shared by the Church of England and Methodist communities.The Roman Catholic church is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.

Newhaven Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) has a history of the parish

The Church of St Michael has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

other places of worship in Newhaven include

Baptist Church Calvinistic Baptist Chapel Cemetery Chapel Christ Church Congregational Chapel Convent of the Sacred Heart Chapel Countess of Huntingdon Elim Pentecostal Church Methodist Church Primitive Methodist Church Sacred Heart (Roman Catholic)

See also Newhaven Wikipedia list of places to worship in Lewes 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
Newhaven parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).

Poor Law Unions
Newhaven 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

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Newhaven/