Hartfield, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Hartfield



Parish History
Hartfield St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish which included Cay Street, South Hartfield Holly Hill, Shepherds Corner, Holtye Common, Perry Hill, Colemans Hatch, Bolebrooke, North Hartfield, and Gallypot Street. The civil Parish of Hartfield is within the Wealden district of East Sussex and includes the settlements at Colemans Hatch Hammerwood and Holtye in the northern edge of Ashdown Forest Hartfield Wikipedia.

A history of the church and parish is available at Sussex parish churches Hartfield St Mary

The church of Hartfield St Mary Church Street has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

Hartfield Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See 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.

For civil registration history see East Grinstead registration district Certificates may be obtained from East Sussex The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone01323 464780 Fax 01323 431386 email eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church records
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
East Grinstead 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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