Brighton All Souls, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
BRIGHTON (St. Nicholas), a sea-port, borough, market-town, and parish, in the hundred of Whalesbone, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 30 miles (E.) from Chichester, and 52 (S.) from London; There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, the Society of Friends, the Connexion of the Countess of Huntingdon, Huntingtonians, Scottish Seceders, Wesleyans, and others; also Bethel chapel, belonging to the Mariners' Friend Society; a Roman Catholic chapel, and a synagogue. The church ofAll Souls, Upper Edward-street, erected in 1833, contains 1100 sittings, nearly all free: the living is a perpetual curacy

Brighton All Souls was an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Sussex, created in 1834 from Brighton St Nicholas, Sussex. All Souls Church was a simple stuccoed building whose main feature was a low tower with a clock face which was a later addition. The interior had galleries on three sides with box pews an a central three-decker pulpit.

The church was re-modeled in 1879 by Edmund Scott and Hyde. There were stained glass windows by Kempe, some of which are now in Norwich Cathedral.

The building was demolished during road widening in 1968.

Church history Brighton All Souls

Brighton Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See 'The borough of Brighton', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7: The rape of Lewes (1940), pp. 244-263. here

An introduction to Brighton's church history Brighton churches and Brighton and Hove Wikipedia

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Civil Registration
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Church Records
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Church of England
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Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

 * 1911 census for England and Wales

Poor Law Unions
Brighton 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.

Taxation
Brighton Residents - the 1662 Hearth Tax. A list of householders along with the number of hearths in their houses. More detail is available in the original record. Article to be found in Sussex Family Historian, vol.7, Sept. 1974 pages 213-216, Family History Library Ref. 942.25 B2su

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