Wadhurst, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
WADHURST (St. Peter and St. Paul), a market town and parish, in the union of Ticehurst, hundred of Loxfield-Pelham, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 4 miles (S. W.) from Lamberhurst, and 5 (S. E.) from Tonbridge-Wells. This town is situated on the road from Tonbridge-Wells to Hastings. The church is partly in the early and partly in the later English style, with a tower surmounted by a lofty spire, and contains some ancient monuments, and on the floor numerous plates of iron, inscribed to various families. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.

A history of the church is available Wadhurst St peter and St Paul

The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul Wadhurst has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Wadhurst Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Tidebrook St John the Baptist was formed from this parish Tidebrook Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Tidebrook St John the Baptist Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Tidebrook Wikipedia list of places of worship in Rother district Wikipedia

See also Wadhurst Wikipedia and Church website which includes a guide to the church.

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 Ticehurst registration district

Church Records
Wadhurst 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
Ticehurst 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/Wadhurst/