Poynings, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Poynings, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Poynings, Sussex | |
|---|---|
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Poynings |
| County | Sussex, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Steyning |
| Registration District | Steyning |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1606 | |
| 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]
POYNINGS (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Steyning, hundred of Poynings, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 6 miles (N. W.) from Brighton. The church, which is partly in the decorated and partly in the later English style, is in the form of a cross, but without aisles, and has a neat square tower in the centre; it was rebuilt in 1370, by direction of the will of Michael de Poynings, one of the barons of that family.[1]
The history of the church may be found at Poynings Churches The church of Holy Trinity has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed buildings
Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) other places of worship include Poynings Zion Strict Baptist Chapel Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
See also Poynings Wikipedia list of places of worship in Mid Sussex
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.
From 1837 this parish was in the Steyning registration district until the 1935 reorganisation of registration services
Certificates can be ordered from
Brighton & Hove The Register Office
Brighton Town Hall
Bartholomew Square
Brighton
BN1 1JA 01273 292016 01273 292019 register.office@brighton hove.gov.uk
Church records[edit | edit source]
Poynings parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Poynings Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS PRs | 1538-1910 | 1538-1910 | 1538-1910 | |||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| OPC | 1538-1800s | 1538-1800s | 1538-1800s | |||
| FREG | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | |||
| FMP | 1530-1990 | |||||
| TGEN | 1538-1920s | 1538-1920s | 1538-1920s | |||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).
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]
Steyning 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]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Poynings/
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 605-609. Date accessed: 30 September 2013
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Sussex) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
