Brightling, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Brightling, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Brightling, Sussex | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Netherfield |
| County | Sussex |
| Poor Law Union | Battle |
| Registration District | Battle |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1560 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1596 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Hastings |
| Diocese | Chichester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes |
| Location of Archive | |
| Sussex Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BRIGHTLING (St. Thomas à Becket), a parish, in the union of Battle, partly in the hundred of Henhurst, but chiefly in that of Netherfield, rape of Hastings, E. division of Sussex, 4 miles (N. W.) from Battle.[1]
Brightling St Thomas a Becket is an Ancient Parish in East Sussex.
Church history Brightling St Thomas a Becket
The Parish Church of St Thomas a Becket has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building
See Brightling Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
The graveyard contains the 25 feet high pyramid tomb of local landowner John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, (1757–1834) MP for Sussex whose eccentric folly building even caused the local pub to be removed to allow for his pyramid. See also Brightling Wikipedia
The mausoleum pyramid has been designated a Grade II* listed mausoleum British listed monument
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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 Battle Registration District from 1837.
Certificates may be obtained from
East Sussex County Council
The Register Office
Town Hall
Grove Road
Eastbourne
BN21 4UG
Phone: 01323 464780
Fax: 01323 431386
Email:eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Brightling, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
| SOPC = Sussex Online Parish Clerks - free[4] |
| Brightling, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1560-1894 | |||||
| IGI | 1560-1880 | |||||
| SOPC | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | |||
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Brightling
Non-Conformists (All other Religions)[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 369-375. Date accessed: 20 September 2013
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 30 December 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Sussex, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 3 January 2014.
- ↑ Sussex Online Parish Clerks, accessed 7 January 2014.
