Rotherfield, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Rotherfield St Denys( sometimes Denis) is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex. Other places in the parish include: Crowborough and Mark Cross.

A history of the church may be found at Rotherfield St Denys and St Mark Mark Cross

The Parish church of St Denys has been designated as a grade I listed building Rotherfield Wikipedia

From this parish in 1874 was formed St Mark Mark Cross.

See also Wikipedia and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 697-703. here

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

Census records
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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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