Rotherfield Sussex Family History Guide

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Rotherfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Other places in the parish include: Crowborough and Mark Cross.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1539
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1593

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Particular Baptist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Rotherfield Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

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

Rotherfield, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1921

Crowborough All Saints, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1879-1921

Eridge Green, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1856-1921

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Rotherfield, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937

Crowborough All Saints, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1883-1937

Eridge Green, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1857-1937

Death and Burial Records

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

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

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ROTHERFIELD, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Sussex. The village stands near the Source of the river Rother, 4 miles WSW of Wadhurst r. station, and 7 SSW of Tunbridge-Wells; and has a post-office under Tunbridge-Wells, and fairs on 18 June and 20 Oct. The parish contains also the hamlet of Mark-Cross, and comprises 14,733 acres. Real property, £12,249. Pop. in 1851, 3,331; in 1861, 3,413. Houses, 657. The property is much subdivided.

The manor belongs to the Earls of Abergavenny and Delawarr. R. Hall, R. House, Crowborough, Brownings, Walshes, Beeches, and Horse Grove are chief residences; and the first is an ancient Tudor mansion. A monastery, a cell to St. Denis in France, was founded here in 800, by Berthwold the Saxon.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £1,550. Patron, the Earl of Abergavenny. The church is chiefly early English; has an open roof of chestnut, and a tower and spire and was recently restored. A section of the parish, with a pop. of 382 in 1861, is in Eridge-Green chapelry. A chapel of ease is at Crowborough; and there are chapels for-Baptists and Wesleyans, an endowed school with £313 a year, and charities £28.

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

Historical Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

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: Rotherfield
  • Province: Canterbury