Newhaven, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Newhaven



Parish History
Newhaven St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the town of Newhaven in the Lewes District of East Sussex.

The history of both the Ancient Parish Church of St Michael and Christ Church formed in 1881 asa mission church for part of the town is described at Sussex Parish Churches Newhaven St Michale and Christ Church The modern parish is shared by the Church of England and Methodist communities.The Roman Catholic church is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.

Newhaven Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) has a history of the parish

The Church of St Michael has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

other places of worship in Newhaven include

Baptist Church Calvinistic Baptist Chapel Cemetery Chapel Christ Church Congregational Chapel Convent of the Sacred Heart Chapel Countess of Huntingdon Elim Pentecostal Church Methodist Church Primitive Methodist Church Sacred Heart (Roman Catholic)

See also Newhaven Wikipedia list of places to worship in Lewes 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
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Newhaven 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
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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