Ovingdean, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
OVINGDEAN, a parish, in the union of Newhaven, hundred of Younsmere, rape of Lewes, East division of Sussex, three miles East by South from Brighton. Ovingdean is a former agricultural village which became absorbed into the growing borough of Brighton, East Sussex in 1928 and is now part of the city of Brighton and Hove. Ovingdean Wikipedia

Ovingdean St Wulfran is an Ancient Parish neigbouring Brighton St Nicholas, Sussex and Rottingdean, Sussex

The church of St Wulfran has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Sussex Parish Churches history of the church Ovingdean St Wulfram

Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)Ovingdean St Wulfram

The parish of Whitehawk was formed from this parish Whitehawk Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Other places of worship in Whitehawk include St Cuthman (Anglican)St Cuthman Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) St David's Mission Hall St Louis, King of France (Roman Catholic)St Louis Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Whitehawk is a suburb east of Brighton in the city of city of Brighton and Hove Whitehawk Wikipedia

See also list of places of worship in Brighton and Hove 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
Ovingdean 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).

Census records
See also Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)]Ovingdean for census entries in the online database.

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
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/Ovingdean/