Hammerwood, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Hammerwood St Stephen is an Ecclesiastical parish formed from Hartfield, Sussex and a small part of East Grinstead, Sussex and created a parish in 1880. Hartfield civil parish includes Hammerwood and is within the Wealden district of East Sussex. Hartfield Wikipedia a list of places to worship in Wealden Wikipedia

The history of the church and parish is available at Sussex Parish Churches Hartfield St Stephen

Hammerwood Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

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
The Genealogical Society of Utah has no microfilm collection for this parish.

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.