Twineham, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Twineham St Peter is an Ancient Parish in West Sussex.

A history of the church Twineham St Peter

The churchyard includes a Quaker burial ground 1694-1732.

The Parish Church of St Peter has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See also:

Twineham Wikipedia and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 404-407. here

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 parish Registers Bap 1716-1878 Marr 1716-1999 Bur 1716-1998 Bishop's Transcripts 1606-1893

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
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
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
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.