Wivelsfield, Sussex Genealogy

Parish History
WIVELSFIELD (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Chailey, partly in the hundred of Street, rape of Lewes, and partly in that of BurleyArches, rape of Pevensey, East division of Sussex, four miles South East from Cuckfield. There is a place of worship for Independents.

Wivelsfield and adjacent Wivelsfield Green are part of the civil parish of Wivelsfield in the Lewes District of East Sussex Wivelsfield Wikipedia

Wivelsfield is an Ecclesiastical Parish created by 1773 from a chapelry in Ditchling, Sussex Ancient Parish

The history of the church is available at Sussex Parish Churches Wivelsfield St Peter and St John the Baptist

The parish church of St Peter and St John the Baptist has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Wivelsfield Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Other places of worship include

Bethel Chapel (Baptist) Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints dates from 2002 Ote Hall Chapel Countess of Huntingdon Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) St George's Retreat (Chapel)

See also list of places of worship in Lewes district

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.

From 1837 this parish was in Lewes Registration District Certificates may be obtained from East Sussex The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone: 01323 464780 Fax: 01323 431386 Email:eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church records
Wivelsfield 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
Chailey 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain