Frant Sussex Family History Guide

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Frant is an Ancient Parish partly in Kent and partly in Sussex.

Other places in the parish include: Hawkenbury.

Alternative names: Fant

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1543
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Nonconformists include:  Baptist, Countess of Huntington Methodist, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Protestant Dissenters, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Frant Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

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

Frant, 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.

Frant, 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.

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

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FRANT, a village in Ticehurst district, Sussex, and a parish and a sub-district in the same district, but partly also in Kent. The village stands 1¼ mile WSW of the nearest part of the Tunbridge and Hastings railway, and 3 miles S of Tunbridge Wells; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Tunbridge Wells. The parish includes also Hawkenbury and part of Tunbridge Wells town. Acres, 8, 872; of which about 310 are in Kent. Real property, £13, 394. Pop., 2, 469. Houses, 488. Pop. of the Kent portion, 307. Houses, 58. The property is subdivided.

Bayham Abbey and Eridge Castle are here. About 130 acres are under hops. There are quarries and mineral springs, a reservoir for supplying Tunbridge Wells with water, and a public fountain to the memory of the late Prince Consort. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £800. Patron, the Earl of Abergavenny. The church is good. The vicarage of Eridge-Green and the p. curacy of Broadwater are separate charges. There are national schools, and charities £23. The sub-district is conterminate with the parish.

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

Administration

  • County: Sussex
  • Civil Registration District: Ticehurst
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1858 – Pevensey, Post-1857 – Pevensey IV
  • Poor Law Union: Ticehurst
  • Hundred: Rotherfield
  • Province: Canterbury