Haywards Heath Church of the Ascension, Sussex Genealogy

Guide to Haywards Heath Church of the Ascension, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
The octagonal timber building of the 1960's parish church was replaced in 1997 by the current church building and the parish absorbed the closed Church of the Good Shepherd and serves the housing development to the south of the town.

Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Church of the Ascension Haywards Heath

See also List of places of worship in Mid Sussex

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

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

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.