Danehill, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Danehill All Saints is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Sussex, created in 1851 from chapelry in Fletching, Sussex Ancient Parish and  Horsted Keynes, Sussex Ancient Parish.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Danehill like this:

DANEHILL, a village, a chapelry, and a hundred in Sussex. The village stands 4½ miles S of East Grinstead r. station, and 6¼ NE of Cuckfield; and has a post office under Uckfield, and a fair on 25th July. The chapelry is in Fletching and Horsted-Keynes parishes; and was constituted in 1851. Pop., 963. Houses, 199. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £90. Patron, the Earl of Sheffield. The hundred is in Pevensey rape; hears the name of Danehill-Horsted; and contains three parishes. Acres, 6, 832. Pop., 1, 181. Houses, 195.

Civil Registration
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.

Church records
West Sussex Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts 1851-1894

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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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