Ovingdean Sussex Family History Guide

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Ovingdean is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1704
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Ovingdean. The index includes information from Melville and Co.’s Directory & Gazetteer of Sussex 1858

Residents in 1858

The following people have been extracted from Melville and Co.’s Directory & Gazetteer of Sussex 1858

Stead, Rev. Alfred, Rectory

Beard, Charles, Ovingdean farm

Ladd, John, farmer, Wootingdean

Ladd, Nathan, steward to Mr. C. Beard

Moppett, Thomas, parish clerk

Moppett, Charlotte, Post office

Moppett, Richard, parish constable

Parish History

Ovingdean Melville and Co.’s Directory & Gazetteer of Sussex 1858

OVINGDEAN is a parish in Younsmere hundred, Lewes rape, with a population of 116. The church, which is ancient, stands on the hill side. The Rev. A. Stead, rector.

Ovingdean The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

OVINGDEAN, a parish in Lewes district, Sussex: near the coast, 4½ miles E by S of Brighton r. station. It has a post-office under Brighton. Acres, 1, 618. Real property, £2, 220. Pop., 121. Houses, 21. The property is chiefly divided between two.

The manor, with O. House, belongs to E. Macnaghton, Esq. Charles II.is said, but not on good evidence, to have lain concealed a short time at Ovingdean, after the battle of Worcester, and prior to his departure from Shoreham to France.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £345. Patron, the Rev. A. Stead. The church stands on a hill side; is partly Norman, partly early English; was recently restored; and consists of nave and chancel, with a porch and tower.

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

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Administration

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