Staplefield Common, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
STAPLEFIELD-COMMON, a chapelry in Cuckfield parish, Sussex; 4¼ miles NW of Haywards-Heath railway station. It was constituted in 1848; and it has a post-office under Crawley. The church was built in 1847. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.

Staplefield St Mark is an Ecclesiastical parish formed in 1848 from Cuckfield, Sussex Ancient Parish.

Church history Staplefiedl St Mark

St Mark's Church Staplefield has been designated a grade II listed building British listed building

Staplefield Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Other places of worship include

Our Lady of Fatima (Roman Catholic) Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

list of places of worship in Mid Sussex Wikipedia See also the civil parish of Ansty and Staplefield Staplefield 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.

This parish was part of Cuckfield registration district from September 1837. see further details To apply for certificates please contact West Sussex Centralised Certificates Office Registration Service West Sussex Record Office County Hall Chichester PO19 1RN 01243 642122

Church records
Staplefield Common 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
Cuckfield 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