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Guide to Crawley, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Crawley, Sussex | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Buttinghill |
| County | Sussex |
| Poor Law Union | East Grinstead |
| Registration District | East Grinstead |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1653 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1611 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Lewes |
| 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]
CRAWLEY (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of East Grinstead, hundred of Buttinghill, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 9½ miles (N. by W.) from Cuckfield. Lewis,[1]
Crawley is an Ancient Parish in West Sussex and since 1947 has been designated a new town which contains 14 Anglican churches within the area of the new town. For introductory history to the expansion of churches Crawley Churches
The Ancient Parish church of St John the Baptist Crawley St John the Baptist has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building Crawley Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)
From this parish the parishes of Southgate St Mary Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Southgate Wikipedia Christ the Lord Broadfield Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Boradfield Wikipedia Holy Trinity Tilgate Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Tilgate Wikipedia St Andrew Furnace Green Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Furnace Green Wikipedia were formed.
Three Bridges St Richard Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Other places of worship in Three Bridges include
Free Church, Three Bridges Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
Spiritualist Church, Three Bridges Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
See also Crawley Wikipedia List of demolished worship places in West Sussex list of places of worship in Crawley Wikipedia Three Bridges Wikipedia
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.
For the civil registration history see Horsham registration district and For civil registration history see East Grinstead registration district
Certificates can be ordered from West Sussex Centralised Certificates Office
Registration Service
West Sussex Record Office
County Hall
Chichester
PO19 1RN
Phone: 01243 642122
Church records[edit | edit source]
Crawley, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[2] | |||||
| PRTS = The Parish Register Transcription Society - (£)[3] | |||||
| SOPC = Sussex Online Parish Clerks - free[4] |
| Crawley, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| IGI | 1611-1640, 1653-1877 | 1611-1876 | ||||
| PRTS | 1653-1900 | 1688-1901 | 1676-1901 | |||
| SOPC | Undefined | |||||
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Crawley
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]
East Grinstead Poor Law Union, Sussex
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]
- ↑ Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 717-720. Date accessed: 20 September 2013
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Sussex, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 31 December 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 22 December 2013.
- ↑ Sussex Online Parish Clerks, accessed 7 January 2014.
