Buxted, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
BUXTED (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Uckfield, hundred of Loxfield-Dorset, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 1¾ mile (N. N. E.) from Uckfield A district church was erected at Hadlow Down, in 1836. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Buxted is an Ancient Parish in East Sussex and has other churches within the parish boundary.

The old parish church of St Margaret of Scotland within Buxted Park has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building



The Church of St Mary replaced this old church and is in the village centre and was consecrated in 1887



The parish church of Holy Trinity High Hurstwood dates from 1870-1871 and has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building and was formed from this Ancient Parish. See High Hurstwood Holy Trinity, Sussex

Buxted Methodist Church was built in 1907

Buxted Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

See Also Buxted Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_of_worship_in_Wealden+ a list of places to worship in Wealden 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.

This parish was part of Uckfield registration district from September 1837. see further details

To apply for certificates please contact: East Sussex The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone 01323 464780 Fax 01323 431386 eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church records
Buxted 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
Uckfield 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.