Crawley, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
CRAWLEY (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of East Grinstead, hundred of Buttinghill, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 9½ miles (N. by W.) from Cuckfield. Lewis,

Crawley is an Ancient Parish in West Sussex and since 1947 has been designated a new town which contains 14 Anglican churches within the area of the new town. For introductory history to the expansion of churches Crawley Churches

The Ancient Parish church of St John the Baptist Crawley St John the Baptist has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building Crawley Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

From this parish the parishes of Southgate St Mary Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Southgate Wikipedia Christ the Lord Broadfield Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Boradfield Wikipedia Holy Trinity Tilgate Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Tilgate Wikipedia St Andrew Furnace Green Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Furnace Green Wikipedia were formed.

Three Bridges St Richard Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Other places of worship in Three Bridges include

Free Church, Three Bridges Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Spiritualist Church, Three Bridges Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

See also Crawley Wikipedia List of demolished worship places in West Sussex list of places of worship in Crawley Wikipedia Three Bridges 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 the civil registration history see Horsham registration district and For civil registration history see East Grinstead registration district  Certificates can be ordered from West Sussex Centralised Certificates Office Registration Service West Sussex Record Office County Hall Chichester PO19 1RN Phone: 01243 642122

Church records
Crawley parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain