Uckfield, Sussex Genealogy

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Parish History
UCKFIELD (Holy Cross), a market-town, a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of LoxfieldDorset, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 8 miles (N. E. by N.) from Lewes. The parish is bounded on the west by the river Ouse. The village is situated on an eminence, on the road from Lewes to London and to Tonbridge-Wells. The nave of the church was rebuilt in 1840 and a spire has been added to the tower. The Baptists and Wesleyans have places of worship.

Uckfield Holy Cross was formed initially as a chapelry within Buxted, Sussex Ancient Parish and as an Ecclesiastical Parish in 1846.

A history of the churches Uckfield Holy Cross and St Saviour churches

The parish church of Holy Cross has been designated a grade II listed building British listed building

The church of St Saviour was formed from this parish in the 1960's

Uckfield Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Other places of worship in Uckfield include

Cemetery Chapel Grange Evangelical Church King's Church Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Methodist Church Our Lady Immaculate &amp; St Philip Neri (Roman Catholic) dated from 1885 demolished 1957 Rebuilt 1957-1961 Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Rockhall Baptist St Saviour (Anglican) Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Strict Baptist United Reformed Church Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Ridgewood

See also:

Uckfield Wikipedia list of places of worship in Wealden Wikipedia and  A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 411-414. 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.

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
Deposited parish Records held at East Sussex Record Office

The church was rebuilt by William Moseley in 1839 on the site of an earlier and smaller church, of which the tower and parts of the chancel walls were incorporated into the new structure. It is dedicated to the Holy Cross, and was extended in 1889. Until 1846 the church was a chapel-of-ease to Buxted, Sussex. It then became a separate parish with its own perpetual curate, who became a rector in 1865. A chapel-of-ease, St Saviour, Framfield Road, opened in 1904 and was a temporary structure of wood and iron; it remained in use until 1971. A new building opened in 1972 in part of a block of flats for the elderly. Contents: INCUMBENT PAR496/1/1 Early registers, 1530-1812 PAR496/1/2 Baptism registers, 1813-1994 PAR496/1/3 Marriage registers, 1813-1989 PAR496/1/4 Banns registers, 1931-1944 PAR496/ 1/5 Burial registers, 1813-1938 PAR496/2 Records relating to the parish registers and interments, 1747-2002 PAR496/3 Service registers, 1889-2000 PAR496/4 Buildings, 1741-1983 PAR496/5 Licences, 1877-1962 PAR496/6 Income of the benefice, 1846-1950 PAR496/7 Incumbent's other records, 1831-1995 CHURCHWARDENS PAR496/8 Rates, 1828-1871 PAR496/9 Accounts, 1704-1937 PAR496/10 Property, 1672 - [1951] PAR496/11 Churchwardens' other records, c1815-1957 VESTRY PAR496/12 Minutes, 1623-1940 PAR496/13 Other vestry records, 1852-1889 PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL PAR496/14 Minutes, 1926-1993 PAR496/15 Accounts, 1931-1934 PAR496/16 Other Parochial Church Council records, 1915-1976 STATUTORY DEPOSITS PAR496/21 Tithe, [1841] - 1932 PAR496/22 Railway records, 1852 PAR496/24 CHARITY, 1740-1994 PAR496/25 SCHOOLS, 1850-1976 PAR496/26 OTHER RECORDS, 1849-1913 PAR496/29 CONSTABLES, 1838-1841 OVERSEERS PAR496/30 Rates, 1702-1834 PAR496/31 Accounts, 1704-1835 PAR496/32/1 Settlement certificates, 1699-1786 PAR496/32/2 Removal orders from parish, 1668-1786 PAR496/ 32/3 Removal orders to parish, 1697-1786 PAR496/32/4 Settlement examinations, 1735-1784 PAR496/33 Apprenticeship, 1653-1760 PAR496/34/1 Bastardy examinations, 1724-1770 PAR496/34/2 Warrants to arrest putative fathers, 1706-1782 PAR496/ 34/3 Bastardy bonds, 1680-1780 PAR496/34/4 Maintenance orders, 1724-1779 PAR496/35 Other settlement records, 1671-1783 PAR496/37 Other Overseers' records, 1697-1847 SURVEYORS PAR496/39 Rates, 1837-1840 PAR496/40 Accounts 1724 PAR496/41 Other records, 1725 PAR496/43 OTHER CHURCH BODIES; 1905-1975

Uckfield Holy Cross records held at West Sussex Record Office Bishop’s transcripts 1664-1883

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Census records
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The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. 

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.

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