Slaugham, Sussex Genealogy

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Parish History
SLAUGHAM (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Cuckfield, hundred of Buttinghill, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 4½ miles (S. by W.) from Crawley. The parish is situated on the road from London, through Crawley, to Brighton; and the river Ouse has its source here, in the grounds of Ashford, forming in its course a lake of about thirty acres at Slaugham mills. The church was enlarged in 1837, and contains a splendid monument to the Coverts. There is a place of worship for Baptists.

Slaugham St Mary is an Ancient Parish in West Sussex.Other places in the parish include: Handcross, Pease Pottage, and Warningfield.

The history of the parish including Handcross and Pease Pottage is here

The Parish church of St Mary has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Slaugham Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Other places of worship include

All Saints, Handcross All Saints handcross Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Baptist House dating from 1765 Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Church of the Ascension, Pease Pottage Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Methodist Church, Handcross Society of Friends Meeting House St Andrew, Warninglid Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Zoar Strict Baptist Chapel, Handcross

See also Slaugham Wikipedia Handcross Wikipedia Pease Pottage Wikipedia and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 118-120. 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 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
West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1654-1890 Marr 1654-1897 Bur 1694-1893 Bishop's Transcripts 1606-1894

Contact West Sussex Record Office 3 Orchard Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1DD Phone: 01243 753602 Fax: 01243 533959 Email: records.office@westsussex.gov.uk

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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.

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

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.

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.

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