Hassocks, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Hassocks St Francis of Assisi is an Ecclesiastical Parish formed from Clayton with Keymer, Sussex parish. The large village and civil parish is in the Mid Sussex district of East Sussex. Hassocks Wikipedia

Th history of St Francis of Assisi dates from 1975 and is described by Sussex Parish Churches Hassocks St Francis of Assisi

Hassocks Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) includes Hassocks Congregational Church.

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.

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

Census Records
See Sussex Census

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
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.