Sussex

Butter Cross Chichester submitted by Caroline

Sussex

East Sussex County town: Lewes

West Sussex county town: Chichester

Other major towns: Brighton, Eastbourne, Hove, Bognor, Littlehampton

Sussex is divided into two separate counties, East Sussex and West Sussex, the east encompassing Brighton, Eastbourne, Bexhill, Rye, and the port of Newhaven. The western region of the county begins on the Hampshire border and includes Midhurst, Horsham and Crawley.

Sussex is also the home of the Greenwich Royal Observatory and castles at Hastings, Lewes, Pevensey and Bodiam with the site of the Battle of Hastings is to be found at Senlac Hill near the town of Battle. The seat of the Duke of Norfolk is in Sussex at Arundel Castle.

Rudyard Kipling lived in a Jacobean ironmaster's house, Bateman's, near Burwash in Sussex. The county has a song dedicated to it called "Sussex by the Sea" written in 1907 by William Ward-Hicks.

Register Office Contact Details

East Sussex

Online orders and copy certificate information. Buying copies of certificates

Brighton and Hove Information

The Register Office
Brighton Town Hall
Bartholomews
Brighton
BN1 1JA
Tel 01273 292016

Crowborough Register Office

Beaconwood
Beacon Road
Crowborough
East Sussex
TN6 1AR
Tel 01892 653803
E-mail crowborough.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Eastbourne Register Office

Town Hall
Grove Road
Eastbourne
East Sussex
BN21 4UG
Tel: 01323 415051
E-mail eastbourne.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Hastings Register Office

Summerfields
Bohemia Road
Hastings
East Sussex
TN34 1EX
Tel 01424 721722
E-mail hastings.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

Lewes Register Office

Southover Grange
Southover Road
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 1TP
Tel 01273 475589
E-mail lewes.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk

West Sussex

Chichester Registration District

Greyfriars
61 North Street
Chichester
PO19 1NB
Tel 01243 642122

Crawley Registration District

Crawley Register Office
Town Hall
The Boulevard
Crawley
RH10 1UZ
Tel 01243 642122

Haywards Heath Registration District

Superintendent Registrar's Office
Haywards Heath Register Office
West Sussex County Council Offices
Oaklands Road
Haywards Heath
RH16 1SU
Tel 01243 642122

Horsham Registration District

Superintendent Registrar's Office
Horsham Register Office
Town Hall
Market Square
Horsham
RH12 1EU
Tel 01243 642122

Worthing Registration District

Worthing Register Office
CentenaryHouse
Durrington Lane
Worthing
BN13 2QB
Tel 01243 642122

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• All Saints, Plumpton near Lewes (East Sussex) scrummy granny
• Ashurst Wood, West Sussex Chris in Sussex
• East Grinstead, West Sussex Chris in Sussex
• Felbridge, West Sussex Chris in Sussex
• Forest Row, East Sussex Chris in Sussex
• Sharpthorne, West Sussex Chris in Sussex
• St Andrews Steyning (and others around the area) Many Ns Tree
• St Nicholas, Middleton on Sea Nichola
• Turners Hill, West Sussex Chris in Sussex
• West Hoathly, West Sussex Chris in Sussex

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please PM the member with your queries.

Links

• East Sussex Record Office

• East Sussex Libraries

• West Sussex Record Office

• West Sussex Libraries

• West Sussex Past

• Local History Directory

Local History Society

• Eastbourne And District FHS

• East Sussex Family History

• Hastings And Rother FHS

• Sussex FHS

OPC

• Online Parish Clerks

Archives

• Sussex Record Society - Poor Law Database

• Sussex Look-up Exchange

• Sussex Electoral Poll 1734

• IGI Sussex

• Barries' Genealogy -Includes some archives from Worthing and Broadwater

Family and Social History

• Sussex Workhouses

• Mid-Sussex Roots

Maps & Photographs

• Old Sussex Mapped

• Photographs of Sussex Churches

• Photographers in Brighton. Site with a directory of Brighton photographers from 1841 -1910 plus the history of some of them. Very useful if you have an old photo you want to date.

• An Ongoing Project aiming to Index all Sussex Photographers from 1841-1910

• Sussex Gallery

• Sussex PhotoHistory

• The Roughwood British Churches Album Photos of East & West Sussex Churches.

Countywide Interest

• Ye Olde Sussex Pages An interesting miscellany of information.

• The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex

• West Sussex - A Church Near You

Specific Town Village Interest

• Angmering Village - includes some Parish Records

• My Brighton and Hove is a fantastic site devoted to all aspects of Brighton and Hove's history.

• Brighton & Hove WW2 Bomb Census maps

• Brighton History Centre Located at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery in the Royal Pavilion Gardens.

• Chailey Village 1914-1918

• Cuckfield -includes some baptisms and burials

• Eastbourne Borough Council's History section The history of the town including a timeline and the WW2 Roll of Honour.

• East Hoathly Parish

• Fishbourne - includes some Parish Records

• Fletching Graves Graves and inscriptions in Fletching, Sussex.

• Henfield History Group

• The Horsham Society- Horsham Past and Present

• Hastings and Lewes This site includes list of prisoners sentenced to transportation from Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850. It has some churchyards fully transcribed.

• The Petworth Emigration Project

• Salehurst -includes some Parish Records

• Southease Village History

Books of local interest

SHOTTERMILL - its Farms, Families and Mills Part 1 - Early Times to the 1700s

SHOTTERMILL - its Farms, Families and Mills Part 2 - 1730 to the Early 20th Century

Both by Greta A. Turner and available from John Owen Smith Although centred on Headley in Hampshire, John Owen Smith's website also covers the local area of Surrey and Sussex.

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