Herstmonceux, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
HERSTMONCEAUX (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Hailsham, hundred of Foxearle, rape of Hastings, E. division of Sussex, 4 miles (E.) from Hailsham; There are a places of worship for Independents, and a buryingground for the Society of Friends.

Herstmonceux All Saints is an Ancient parish which included Gardiner Street and Bodle Street and is in the Wealden district of East Sussex. The Parish church is distant from the modern civil parish which includes Cowbeech and a number of small hamlets Foul Mile, Trolliloes, Cowbeech Hill, Stunts Green, Ginger's Green, Flowers Green and part of Windmill Hill.

A history of the church Herstmonceux All Saints

The Parish church of All Saints has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Herstmonceux Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Herstmonceux Wikipedia

Herstmonceaux Friends Meeting House has a 1734 date stone.

Herstmonceux Free Church an Independent/Congregationalist church was built asa Congregational Chapel in 1811 at Chapel Cross outside nearby Herstmonceaux see 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.

For civil registration history see Hailsham registration district Certificates may be obtained from East Sussex,The Register Office, Town Hall, Grove Road, Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone 01323 464780Fax 01323 431386 email eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church records
Herstmonceux 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
Hailsham 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/Herstmonceux/