Clayton with Keymer, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
CLAYTON (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Cuckfield, hundred of Buttinghill, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 2¼ miles (S. S. E.) from Hurst-Pierrepoint.

Clayton with Keymer St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex. Other places in the parish include: St John's Common, Keymer( sometimes Kymere)and Burgess Hill. A history of the church Clayton St John the Baptist

The Parish Church of St john the Baptist Clayton Hassocks has been desingated a grade I listed building British listed building

Clayton Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) Keymer West Sussex Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) for details of Keymer churches and Keymer Wikipedia Keymer St Cosmos and Damian, Sussex

See also

Clayton St John the Baptist Wikipedia Clayton Wikipedia and list of places of worship in Mid Sussex Wikipedia

A history of the County of Sussex

A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 624-626. 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 Cuckfield registration district from September 1837. see further details To apply for certificates please contact West Sussex Centralised Certificates Office Registration Service West Sussex Record Office County Hall Chichester PO19 1RN 01243 642122

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

West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap1687-1909 Marr 1692-1969 Bur 1685-1998

Bishop's Transcripts 1571-1899

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

Poor Law Unions
Cuckfield 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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