Danehill, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Danehill



Parish History
Danehill All Saints is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Sussex, created in 1887 from chapelry in Fletching, Sussex Ancient Parish and  Horsted Keynes, Sussex Ancient Parish.

A history of the church can be found at Sussex parish Churches

The Parish Church of All Saints has been designated a grade II listed building listed building

Danehill Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See Danehill Wikipedia

Within the parish is the hamlet church at Chelwoood Gate a list of places to worship in Wealden Wikipedia

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.

Part of this parish was part of Cuckfield registration district from September 1837. see further details To apply for certificates please contact West Sussex Centralised Certificates Office Registration Service West Sussex Record Office County Hall Chichester PO19 1RN 01243 642122

Part of this parish was part of Uckfield registration district from September 1837. see further details To apply for certificates please contact East Sussex The Register Office Town Hall Grove Road Eastbourne BN21 4UG Phone 01323 464780 Fax 01323 431386 eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Church records
West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish registers Baptisms 1851-1993 Marriages 1851-1990 Burials 1853-1983 Banns 1851-1977 Bishop's Transcripts 1851-1894

Contact West Sussex Record Office 3 Orchard Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1DD Phone: 01243 753602 Fax: 01243 533959 Email: records.office@westsussex.gov.uk

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

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Partly in Cuckfield Poor Law Union, Sussex and partly in

Uckfield 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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