Hampden Park, Sussex Genealogy

Guide to Hampden Park, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Hampden Park St Mary the Virgin is an Ecclesiastical parish formed from Willingdon, Sussex parish and is a suburb of Eastbourne East Sussex.

The history of the church is available at Sussex Parish Churches Hampden Park St Mary the Virgin

Hampden Park Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) which includes St Joachim Roman Catholic St Luke Presbyterian and St Stephen methodist churches.

The parish of Hydneye St Peter was formed from this parish see Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) Hydneye St Peter

See also list of places to worship in Eastbourne 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

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