Bolney, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex

Parish History
Bolney St Mary Magdalene is an Ancient Parish in West Sussex.

BOLNEY (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Cuckfield, partly in the hundred of Buttinghill, but chiefly in the half-hundred of Wyndham,rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 3¼ miles (W. S. W.)from Cuckfield; containing 713 inhabitants. It comprises 3482 acres, of which 42 are common or waste.The London and Brighton road by way of Hixted passes through the parish, within half a mile of the village.The land is chiefly arable and pasture, with a tract of wood forming part of the forest of St. Leonard; it is generally poor, being a thin soil over sandstone, but in some places there is a good stiff clay. Sandstone abounds, and iron-ore is found. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 5. 2½.;patron, the Prebendary of Hove in the Cathedral of Chichester; impropriators, W. and C. Marshall, Esqrs.;net income, £162.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 295-302. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50811 Date accessed: 09 May 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Cuckfield Poor Law Union, Sussex

Probate records
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.

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