Hollington, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Hollington, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Hollington, Sussex | |
|---|---|
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| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Baldstow; Hastings Borough |
| County | Sussex, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Battle |
| Registration District | Battle |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1636 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1606 | |
| 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]
HOLLINGTON (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Battle, hundred of Baldslow, rape of Hastings, E. division of Sussex, 2¾ miles (W. N. W.) from Hastings; There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[1] Hollington is an Ancient parish to the north of Hastings East Sussex. The church was originally known as St Rumbold's but is known officially as St Leonards church. It should not be confused with the later church of Hastings St Leonards.
The church has been designated as a grade II listed building by English Heritage. See English Heritage
For further history and images refer to Sussex Parish Churches
Hollington Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)
Hollington may also refer to the parish of St John the Evangelist Church near Hollington which was formed from the Ancient Parish in 1870 to serve the needs of the growing suburb of Hastings. For details of the later formed parish Sussex Parish Churches
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]
Hollington, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FREG = FreeReg.org.uk | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[3] |
| HOLLINGTON PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1636-1837 | |||||
| FREG | 1822-1834 | |||||
| NBI | 1636-2001 | |||||
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Hollington
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.
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
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]
Hollington on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 530-533. Date accessed: 27 September 2013
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 30 December 2013.
