Cowfold, Sussex Genealogy

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Cowfold St Peter

Parish History

Cowfold is an Ancient parish in West Sussex.

See a history of the church Cowfold St Peter

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

Cowfold Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Cowfold Wikipedia and  A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 702-710. 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

For the civil registration history see also Horsham registration district

Church records

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

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

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