Ifield, Sussex Genealogy
Parish History
Ifield St Margaret of Antioch is an Ancient Parish in West Sussex, part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbour Charlwood, Surrey
Ifield is a former village now a neighbourhood in the town of the Crawley West Sussex, see Ifield West Sussex and St Margaret Ifield Wikipedia
The history of the church is found at Sussex Parish Churches Ifield St Margaret
Other places of worship in Ifield include:
Elim Pentecostal Church, Langley Green
Freinds Meeting House
Our Lady Queen of Heaven, Langley Green
St Alban, Gossops Green
St Leonard, Langley Green
St Mary Magdalene, Bewbush
St Theodore of Canterbury, Gossops Green
Trinity United Reformed Church
see Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) Ifield West Sussex
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.
From 1837 this parish was in the Horsham registration district
Certificates can be ordered from West Sussex Centralised Certificates Office
Registration Service
West Sussex Record Office
County Hall
Chichester
PO19 1RN
Phone: 01243 642122
Church records
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Ifield
Census records
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal: Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
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Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.
Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
Find my Past census search 1841-1901
for details of public houses in the 1881 census
Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.
The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search
Poor Law Unions
Horsham 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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Web sites
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