Waldron, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
WALDRON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Uckfield, hundred of Shiplake, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Uckfield. The church is partly in the early and partly in the later English style, with an embattled tower: from the churchyard is an extensive view, embracing the town of Lewes and the South Downs. The Wesleyans have a place of worship.

Waldron is an Ancient Parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex which includes Cross in Hand and Horam. The civil parish of Heathfield and Waldron includes Heathfield, Waldorn, Cross-in-Hand,Broad Oak, Punnetts Town, Little London and Cade Street.

A history of the church All Saints A chapel of ease St Bartholomew, Cross-in-Hand was dedicated in 1863 to house parishioners whilst All Saints was renovated.

The parish church of All Saints (Heathfield and Waldron) Waldron Village has been designated a grade I listed building listed building

Waldron Sussex online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Horam Chapel is in the village of Horam and is a modern Evangelical chapel.See also Horam Christ Church, Sussex which was formed from this Ancient Parish

The Cross-in Hand Methodist Church is part of the Eastbourne Circuit and opened in 1896.

The Gamelands Methodist Church Horam is part of the Eastbourne Circuit and was founded in 1900.

See also Heathfield and Waldron East Sussex Wikipedia.a list of places to worship in Wealden 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 Uckfield registration district from September 1837. see further details To apply for certificates please contact East Sussex The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone 01323 464780 Fax 01323 431386 eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church records
Waldron 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
Uckfield 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/Waldron/