Twineham, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
TWINEHAM (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Cuckfield, hundred of Buttinghill, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 5 miles (S. W.) from Cuckfield. The road from London to Brighton, by way of Hickstead, runs through the parish.

A history of the church Twineham St Peter The churchyard includes a Quaker burial ground 1694-1732. The Parish Church of St Peter has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Twineham Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also:

Twineham Wikipedia list of places of worship in Mid Sussex Wikipediaand A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 404-407. 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

Burchall, Michael J. A Hickstead Place Account Book. A discussion of the importance of sources other than parish registers for learning about the lives of ancestors. This discussion is primarily about the Lords of Twineham Manor and the Stapley family. Other surnames mentioned are Wood, Saunders, Foord, King, Morley, Lockier, Lindfield and Dumbrell. Covers years 1642-1745. Article to be found in the magazine Sussex Family Historian Vol. 1. #2, Sept 1973, pages 47-48. Family History Library Ref. 942.25 B2su

Church records
Twineham 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
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
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/Twineham/