Heathfield Independent Chapel Records

[ruth elliott]

Can anyone tell me where I can look for a birth in the Heathfield Independent Chapel Records please?

Ruth

[JDGen]

Hi Ruth,

Assume that you mean Heathfield in Sussex?

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=179-nc&cid=0#0 - suggests that they are at East Sussex Records Office

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/searches/locresult_details.asp?LR=179 - contact details

I'd suggest that you email them and explain what you are looking for and the timescales.

Hope this helps,

Jean

[ruth elliott]

Thanks so much.

Ruth

[confusia]

You could try www.bmdregisters.co.uk
They do non-parochial registers.
I found various Baptist relatives there.

[kerryb]

Just to confirm Heathfield Independent baptisms are on www.bmdregisters.co.uk

I have managed to find and download a number through that site.

They are also on the Sussex Family History Group baptism database if you are a member.

Kerry

[Philip4946]

The Genealogist website also has access to Heathfield Independent Chapel Records via the Non-conformist link. www.thegenealogist.co.uk

Also the IGI has them under batch numbers C042191.

[ruth elliott]

Thank you all for your help.

However, I managed to get to the National Records office and look through the films, and my John Oliver's birth is not there.

I have a record of the first three children b. in this family, christened at Mayfield.
There are then no more records of births in this family; ( I am sure I have identified the Family/parents of the John I am searching for;) from 1804 onwards
However, my John Oliver says on a census record that he was b. in Mayfield in 1809.

I also find, what I think are these same parents, in their 70s, living down the road, just outside Mayfield Parish, after John and his siblings have left home.

So where is this family between 1804 and 1840, or more to the point, where are the children baptised?
Not in the local Independent Chapel.

Were they baptised all at once, when a daughter was getting married, as I know can happen?
If so, where would I find them?

John was later m. in the CofE; would he need to show proof of christening for this to be allowed?

I have checked all the surrounding Parishes foe his b. in 1809 at Lewes records office.
Should I try Kent records?

Annette

[Ivans]

Thank you all for your help.

However, I managed to get to the National Records office and look through the films, and my John Oliver's birth is not there.

I have a record of the first three children b. in this family, christened at Mayfield.
There are then no more records of births in this family; ( I am sure I have identified the Family/parents of the John I am searching for;) from 1804 onwards
However, my John Oliver says on a census record that he was b. in Mayfield in 1809.

I also find, what I think are these same parents, in their 70s, living down the road, just outside Mayfield Parish, after John and his siblings have left home.

So where is this family between 1804 and 1840, or more to the point, where are the children baptised?
Not in the local Independent Chapel.

Were they baptised all at once, when a daughter was getting married, as I know can happen?
If so, where would I find them?

John was later m. in the CofE; would he need to show proof of christening for this to be allowed?

I have checked all the surrounding Parishes foe his b. in 1809 at Lewes records office.
Should I try Kent records?

Annette

I also have a John Oliver in my family tree he was married to a lady named Frances and had my granmother Laura Winfred Oliver, they lived in North St Punnetts Town, they had a large family,as well as Laura,  Laura married my grandfather William Pettitt
Regards Ivan