Pett, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Pett



Parish History
Pett St Mary and St Peter is an Ancient Parish in the village and civil parish of Pett in the Rother district of East Sussex.

history and images

Pett Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

other places of worship include

Mount Calvary Bible Christian Chapel Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) St Nicholas, Pett Level Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) This tiny building was erected by the Admiralty at this coastal location as a Lifesaving Rocket Apparatus Station-a safety device intended to rescue shipwrecked sailors. It was bought by the Diocese of Chichester and opened as a church on 26 April 1935.

See A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 558-564. here

Pett Methodist Church dates from 1848 and has been designated a grade II listed building British listed building

See also list of places of worship in Rother 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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Hastings 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

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