Penhurst, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Penhurst St Michael is an Ancient parish in the small settlement of Penhurst in the Rother District of East Sussex, which is four miles west of Battle.

The church of St Michael is an unrestored church originating in the 14th century which has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

The comedy Actor Harry H Corbett is buried in the church yard See Sussex Online Pairsh Clerks (OPC) and Harry H.Corbett

The small settlement of Penhurst is part of the civil parish of Ashburnham and Penhurst see Wikipedia

This parish should not be confused with nearby Penshurst, Kent

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

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

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Battle 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
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.