Clayton with Keymer, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Clayton with Keymer



Parish History
Clayton with Keymer St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex. Other places in the parish include: St John's Common, Keymer, Burgess Hill, and Kymere.

A history of the church Clayton St John the Baptist

The Parish Church of St john the Baptist Clayton Hassocks has been desingated a grade I listed building British listed building

Clayton Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also

Clayton St John the Baptist Wikipedia

Clayton Wikipedia and

A history of the County of Sussex

A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 624-626. 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.

This parish was part of Cuckfield registration district from September 1837. see further details To apply for certificates please contact West Sussex Centralised Certificates Office Registration Service West Sussex Record Office County Hall Chichester PO19 1RN 01243 642122

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

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Cuckfield 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
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