Fletching Sussex Family History Guide

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Fletching is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1552
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606

Nonconformists include:  Baptist, Calvinist, Particular Baptist, Protestant Dissenters, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Fletching Parish Records

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Fletching, Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Fletching, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Fletching, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Fletching, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1995

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FLETCHING, a village and a parish in Uckfield district, Sussex. The village stands on the river Ouse, 3½ miles NW of the Uckfield station of the Brighton, Lewes, Groomsridge, and Tunbridge-Wells railway; and has a post office under Uckfield, and a fair on the Monday before Whit-Sunday. The parish comprises 8,463 acres. Real property, £8,222. Pop., 2,028. Houses, 411. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to Earl Godwin; passed to the Delawarres, the Nevilles, the Sackvilles, and others; and belongs now to the Earl of Sheffield.

Sheffield Place, the seat of the Earl, includes some ancient portions; was, at various times, enlarged and altered, and not long ago almost entirely rebuilt; presents Gothic features, but scarcely in good taste; presents, on its exterior, the shields of the several owners of the manor since the Conquest; was the place where the historian Gibbon spent much of the latter part of his life; contains a portrait of Gibbon, by Sir Joshua; and stands in a beautiful park, embellished with noble trees. About 84 acres are under hops. There is a number of mineral springs, almost all chalybeate.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £300. Patron, the Earl of Sheffield. The church has Norman features, but is chiefly early English; is cruciform; has a Norman tower, with a spire; contains, in the S transept, an altar-tomb with very fine brass of a Dalyngrugge of 1395, and another altar-tomb with effigies of a Leche of 1596; and has, in connexion with the N transept, the mausoleum of the Sheffield family, containing the grave of Gibbon, with a Latin inscription by Dr. Parr. The vicarage of Dane-hill is a separate benefice. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £56.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Sussex
  • Civil Registration District: Uckfield
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Pevensey
  • Poor Law Union: Uckfield
  • Hundred: Rushmonden
  • Province: Canterbury