Horsham St John Broadbridge Heath, Sussex Genealogy

Parish History
Horsham St John Broadridge Heath is an Ecclesiastical Parish formed from the parish of Horsham, Sussex

A history of the parish may be found at Sussex Parish Churches website Horsham St John Broadridge Heath

Horsham St John Broadridge Heath Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Broadridge Heath Wikipedia

St John is the Anglican chapel located in Broadbridge Heath.

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
Horsham St John Broadbridge Heath parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).

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.