Holtye Common St Peter, Sussex Genealogy

Guide to Holtye Common St Peter, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Holtye Common St Peter replaced a former chapel of ease of Hartfield, Sussex and was built in 1892.Holtye Common is a hamlet in the Wealden District of East Sussex.

The church was declared redundant in November 2007 list of places of worhip in Wealden Wikipedia

The history of the church is described at Sussex Parish Churches Holtye Common St Peter

Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Holtye Common St Peter

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.