Maresfield, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
MARESFIELD (St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Uckfield, hundred of Rushmonden, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 2 miles (N. by W.) from Uckfield;At Nutley is a district church, of recent erection, dedicated to St. James.

Maresfield St Bartolomew is an Ancient Parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex.

A history of the church Maresfield St Bartholomew

The Parish Church of St Bartholomew Maresfield has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Maresfield Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Maresfield 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.

This parish was part of Uckfield registration district from September 1837. see further details To apply for certificates please contact East Sussex The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone 01323 464780 Fax 01323 431386 eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church records
Parish registers exist from 1538. However, these have not been indexed at FamilySearch.org. The Registers were deposited in the East Sussex Record Office.


 * A2A East Sussex Record Office: Parish of Maresfield A2A (Access to Archives) inventory of holdings of East Sussex Record Office in relation to the Parish of Maresfield.

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

Poor Law Unions
Uckfield 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Maresfield/