Eridge Green, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Eridge Green Holy Trinity was formed as a parish from Frant, Sussex Ancient Parish and a small part of Rotherfield, Sussex in 1853.The civil parish is Frant in the Wealden district of East Sussex.

A history of the church is available at Sussex Parish Churches Eridge Green Holy Trinity

The Church of Holy Trinity has been designated as grade II listed building British listed building

Eridge Green Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) The Online Parish clerks entry contains details of the International Genealogical Index batch for the parish and details of an unknown denomination chapel.

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.

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Link to the Family History Library film numbers in their collection  FamilySearch has catalogued the parish within Rotherfield.

To locate the IGI batch numbers for Eridge Green Eridge Green Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Census records
See Sussex Census

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
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.