Haywards Heath, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Haywards Heath, a parish.

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Haywards Heath Church of the Ascension, Sussex Haywards Heath Church of the Good Shepherd, Sussex Haywards Heath Church of the Presentation, Sussex Haywards Heath Congregational Church(United Reformed Church), Sussex HaywardsHeath, Elfinsward, The Chapel Holy Cross Convent Chapel see Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Haywards Heath Jireh Strict Baptist Chapel, Sussex Haywards Heath Methodist Church, Sussex Old Congregational Chapel (St Edmund's) see Old Congregational Chapel Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) Our Lady of Good Counsel Chapel (The Priory) see Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) Primitive Methodist Church (Baptist) see Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) St Francis Hospital Chapel see Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) St Paul(Roman Catholic) see Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

Haywards Heath, St Richard,Sussex Haywards Heath St Wilfrid, Sussex

Haywards Heath was part of East Sussex until 1974 when it became part of the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex

See also Haywards Heath Wikipedia and Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Haywards Heath West Sussex list of places to worship in Mid-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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Family History Centre
Haywards Heath England Family History Centre

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Cuckfield/