Streat, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
STREET, a parish, in the union of Chailey, hundred of Street, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 6¾ miles (N. W.) from Lewes. It is situated on the road from Lewes to Ditchelling. The church is an ancient structure of flint, containing several monuments to the Dobell family and others.

Church history Streat

The Parish church in Streat Lane has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Streat Sussex Parish Clerks online (OPC)

list of places of worship in Lewes district

See also Streat 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.

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
Streat 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).

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Genealogy
Burchall. Michael J. A Tillinghast Genealogy. A discussion of the Tillinghast family descending from John Tillinghast and Alice Pardon mainly two sons, Pardon, 1601 and John 1604. Surnames mentioned are Tichborne, Batnor, Browne, Leehford and Fenner. Article covers years 1230-1645. Article to be found in the magazine, Sussex Family Historian, vol.1. #3, Dec. 1973. pages 51-59. Family History Library Ref. 942.52 B2su.

Burchall, Michael J. Tillinghurst Genealogy (continued). A genealogy of the descendants of Robert Tillinghurst of Streat/Street, buried 1613, article covers years 1613-1718, Surnames mentioned are Hosmer, Hurst, Pardon, Picknoll, Waller, Tichbourne, Geere, Dalleg, Bridge, Saxby, Archer, Cox, Browne, Lechford, Butterworth and Taber. Article in Sussex Family Historian vol. 1, #4, March 1974, pages 85-88, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 B2su

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
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/Streat/