Hastings St Clement Halton, Sussex Genealogy

England Sussex  Sussex Parishes

Guide to Hastings St Clement Halton family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Hastings.-- parl. and mun. bor., watering-place, market town, and one of the Cinque Ports, E. Sussex, 34 miles E. of Brighton and 62 miles SE. of London.

Hastings St Clement, Halton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Sussex, created in 1839 from Hastings St Clement, Sussex Ancient Parish.

Church History from Sussex Parish Churches Hastings St Clement Halton

See: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 435-441. here

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

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

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Hastings/