Albourne, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
ALBOURNE, a parish in Cuckfield district, Sussex; 3½ miles W of Hassock's Gate railway station, and 6½ SW of Cuckfield. The church is an ancient structure; the nave is separated from the chancel by a fine Norman arch, and there is a north transept. See also.

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 Bap 1550-1580, 1601-1900 Marr 1605-1707, 1813-1975 Bur 1605-1899 Bishop's Transcripts 1606-1893

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

Census records
1911 Census For England & Wales

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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