Blackham, Sussex Genealogy

Guide to Blackham, Sussex, England ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Parish History
Blackham All Saints is an Ecclesiastical parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex.

A history of the church is available at Blackham All Saints

Blackham Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Blackham is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex see Blackham 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.

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

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.