Plaistow, Sussex Genealogy

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



Parish History
Plaistow Holy Trinity replaced an earlier medieval chapelry of Kirdford, Sussex and dates from 1853-1854.

Plaistow Holy Trinity

Plaistow village is within the civil parish of Plaistow and Ifold in the Chichester district of West Sussex.

Plaistow Sussex Online Parish clerks (OPC)

Plaistow 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.

Census records
See Sussex Census and search for Kirdford, Sussex prior to 1854

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
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