Stonegate, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
STONEGATE, a chapelry in Ticehurst parish, Sussex; 1¼ mile NE of Ticehurst-Road r. station, and 9 SSE of Tunbridge-Wells. It was constituted in 1839. Stonegate is within the Ticehurst civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex

Stonegate St Peter is an Ecclesiastical parish formed in 1838 from Ticehurst, Sussex Ancient Parish. The 1838 church was enlarged in 1904 to form the present church and it appears was realigned.

The civil parish is Ticehurst see Ticehurst Wikipedia

A history of the church including realignment since 1838 is available at Stonegate St Peter

Stonegate Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

list of places of worship in Rother

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
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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