Folkington, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Folkington, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Folkington, Sussex | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Longbridge |
County | Sussex, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Eastbourne |
Registration District | Eastbourne |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1558 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1606 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Pevensey |
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]
FOLKINGTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Eastbourne, hundred of Longbridge, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 18 miles (S. S. E.) from Uckfield.[1]
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 civil registration history see Eastbourne registration district
Certificates may be obtained from
East Sussex The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road
Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone 01323 464780 Fax01323 431386 email eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk
Church records[edit | edit source]
Folkington, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
PRTS = The Parish Register Transcription Society - (£)[4] |
Folkington, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BOYD | 1560-1754 | |||||
IGI | 1664-1791 | |||||
PRTS | 1676-1791 | 1560-1754 | 1558-1791 |
Link to the Family History Catalogue showing film numbers in their collection Folkington
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. 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]
Eastbourne Poor Law Union, Sussex Genealogy
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, Samauel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 248-250. Date accessed: 27 September 2013
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Sussex, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 3 January 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 15 December 2013.
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren't mentioned above.