Rotherfield, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Rotherfield



Parish History
Rotherfield St Denys( sometimes Denis) is an Ancient Parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex. Other places in the parish include: Crowborough and Mark Cross.

A history of the church may be found at Rotherfield St Denys and St Mark Mark Cross

The Parish church of St Denys has been designated as a grade I listed building Rotherfield Wikipedia

From this parish in 1874 was formed St Mark Mark Cross. Mark Cross Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Rotherfield Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Other places of worship include

Rotherfield Methodist Church Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Rotherfield Providence Chapel (Baptist) Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) St Peter (Roman Catholic) Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

See also Wikipedia list of places of worship in Wealden Wikipedia and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 697-703. 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 Uckfield registration district from September 1837. see further details To apply for certificates please contact East Sussex The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone 01323 464780 Fax 01323 431386 eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church records
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
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Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Ancestry UK Census Collection

Find my Past census search 1841-1901

for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search

Poor Law Unions
Uckfield 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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Web sites
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