Pyecombe, Sussex Genealogy
Parish History
Pyecombe, the Church of the Transfiguration is an Ancient parish in the civil parish of Pyecombe in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex.
The Parish church at Church Hill Pyecombe has been designated a grade I listed building British listed building
Pyecombe Sussex online Parish Clerks(OPC)
See also:
list of places of worship in Mid Sussex
Pyecombe Wikipedia and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 567-571. here
Resources
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.
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
Church records
Pyecombe The Transfiguration
West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1561-1895 Marr 1596-1998 Bur 1598-1999 Bishop's Transcripts 1606-1894
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 Pyecombe
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.
Web sites
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