Jevington, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
JEVINGTON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Eastbourne, hundred of Willingdon, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 3 miles (N. W.) from Eastbourne.

Jevington St Andrew is in Wealden district of East Sussex and included in the parish the hamlet of Filching and Wannock. For further information about the civil parish see Willingdon and Jevington

The history of the church can be found at Jevington St Andrew

The Parish church of St Andrew at The Street Jevington has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Jevington Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Jevington Wikipedia 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 Eastbourne registration district Certificates may be obtained from East Sussex The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone 01323 464780 Fax01323 431386 email eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

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

Poor Law Unions
Eastbourne 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://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Jevington/