SUMMARY of MATERIAL HELD AT ESRO relevant to WADHURST RESEARCH
ESRO references are in brackets;
Summary of contents
INCUMBENT
PAR498/1/1 Pre-1812 registers; 1604-1812
PAR498/1/2 Baptism registers; 1813-1975
PAR498/1/3 Marriage registers; 1813-1975
PAR498/1/4 Banns registers; 1823-1971
PAR498/1/5 Burial registers; 1813-1974
PAR498/1/5 Confirmation registers; 1935-1987
PAR498/2 Copies of registers; 1678-1979
PAR498/3 Service registers; 1887-1980
PAR498/4 Buildings; 1884-1975
PAR498/5 Institutions, inductions, licences; 1811-1965
PAR498/6 Income of the benefice; 1745-1919
PAR498/7 Other records; c1685-2003
CHURCHWARDENS
PAR498/8 Rates; 1812-1904
PAR498/9 Accounts; 1621-1826
PAR498/10 Property; 1714-1987
PAR498/11 Other records; 1714-1963
VESTRY
PAR498/12 Minutes; 1855-1895
PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL
PAR498/14 Minutes; 1920-1974
PAR498/15 Accounts; 1937-2000
PAR498/16 Other records, including Carillon Cottage; 1926-2005
STATUTORY DEPOSITS
PAR498/21 Tithe records; 1840-1930
CHARITIES
PAR498/24 Parish charitiers, 1670-1994
SCHOOLS PAR498/25 Records of Wadhurst School; 1827-1892
OTHER RECORDS
PAR498/26 1692-1867
CONSTABLES PAR498/28 Accounts; 1616-1617
PAR498/29 Other records; 1674-1797
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
PAR498/30 Rates; 1686-1822
PAR498/31 Accounts; c1700-1780
PAR498/32/1 Settlement certificates; 1672-1795
PAR498/32/2 Removal orders from parish; 1682-1795
PAR498/32/3 Removal orders to parish; 1682-1794
PAR498/32/4 Settlement examinations; 1725-1791
PAR498/33 Apprenticeship; 1681-1779
PAR498/34/1 Bastardy examinations; 1706-1792
PAR498/34/2 Warrants to arrest putative fathers; 1743-1794
PAR498/34/3 Bastardy bonds; 1694-1790 – more information
PAR498/34/4 Maintenance orders; 1719-1794
PAR498/35 Other settlement records; 1778
PAR498/36 Militia; 1769-1782
PAR498/37 Other records; 1654-c1845
Documents in PAR 498/16 which are less than 30 years old are available only with the authority of the PCC
PARISH COUNCILS
Minutes and often accounts, correspondence and inherited pre-1894 civil parish records: From 1894 unless otherwise stated; earliest date of civil parish records noted in brackets. Ticehurst from 1895; Wadhurst
SUSSEX POLICE AUTHORITY
East Sussex Constabulary: Chief Constable’s rpts 1904-67, order books 1841-1965, regs of chimney sweepers, pedlars, firearms etc 1871-1963 (SPA1-2)
GAS COMPANIES
Minutes of former gas companies: Crowborough 1898-1929 (GCR); Wadhurst 1925-48 (GWA)
PARISH RECORDS
Lack of space prevents details being included of the records deposited for each parish; however, dates are given of the earliest registers (r), pre-1800 churchwardens’ accounts (cw), vestry minutes (v), and charity school records (sc). Comprehensive overseers’ records (ov) are also noted with the earliest date; o dates of other records
Ticehurst: r1559, cw1685, ov1606; Wadhurst: r1604, ov1669
Ticehurst o1901 (ACC 5610), r1948-1985, o1864-1990 (ACC 5635), monumental inscriptions, 1999 (ACC 7935);
Tidebrook r1856-1993 (ACC 6368), o1947-1982 (ACC 6816)
Wadhurst r1936-1975, o1654-1987 (ACC 5317, 5401);
METHODIST CIRCUITS
Ticehurst/Wadhurst Circuit o1867-1974 (ACC 5619)
Wadhurst Methodist Church o1871-1972 (ACC 5619);
BAPTIST
Wadhurst Pell Green Baptist Chapel o1820-1850 (ACC 5940);
Wadhurst Shovers Green Baptist Chapel o(photocopies) 1816-1979 (ACC 5187), o1815-1977 (ACC 5940)
ESTATE AND FAMILY ARCHIVES
Archives transferred from the Sussex Archaeological Society have SAS before their prefix. Archive groupings previously split between the two repositories are listed together below.
Abergavenny (Neville): Frant, Ditchling, Mayfield, Hove, Lewes, Patcham, Rodmell, Rotherfield, Crowborough, Rottingdean, Kent, Worcs, Norfolk 16-20c (ABE, SAS/ABER)
Courthope: Wadhurst, Ticehurst, Kent 14-19c (SAS/CO)
Dyke Hutton (Dyke and Penkhurst): Frant, Buxted, Waldron, Wadhurst, Rotherfield, Mayfield, Kent 14-19c (DYK)
Kirby (Baker): Mayfield, Wadhurst 16-20c (KIR)
Portman (Medley, Jenkinson, Shuckburgh-Evelyn): Mayfield, Wadhurst, 16-18c (SAS/PN)
BUSINESS ARCHIVES
Auctioneers, estate agents and surveyors: Braxton Watson, Wadhurst, valuation books 1831-1914 (BRX)
R J Bassett, farrier & blacksmith, Wadhurst accounts etc c1880-1988 (also concerning Wadhurst Fire Brigade c1904-c1980 (ACC 6992);
E Watson & Sons, estate agents, Wadhurst farm valuation books and indexes 19c-20c (ACC 2629);
CHARITIES
Mayfield Charities: minutes, accounts and papers, 1770-1990, relating to the following charities, Hugh Luck’s Charity, Edward Holmes Baldock’s charity, the charity of Benjamin Tompsett, Michael and Thomas Baker’s Charity, Michael Baker’s School Charity, Thomas Hugh Mann’s Charity,
Benjamin Tompsett’s Charity, and Mrs Hocking’s Little Christmas Present (ACC 8165); Wadhurst United Charities deeds of properties in Wadhurst
1550-1884, balance sheets 1896-1905 (ACC 2550);
SOCIETIES
East Sussex Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs records of the Federation 1929-1981, and of four branches 1943-1964 (ACC 5565), minutes for the Federation 1966-1994, East Grinstead and District 1959-1980, Frant and Wadhurst 1971-1989,
Wadhurst Fat Stock Show minutes 1928-1966 (ACC 5254);
SCHOOLS
Ticehurst CE Primary School 1900-1986 (ACC 6111), log books, minutes, etc 1902- 1962 (ACC 6914)
Wadhurst Uplands Community College 1979-1985 (ACC 5468);
ESTATE AND FAMILY
Michael Baker of Mayfield commonplace book 1795-1796 (ACC 5631);
Boorman family of Wadhurst papers and pedigree 1863-1982 (ACC 6642),
Frederick Cyril Boorman of Wadhurst photographs and papers, 1890-1980s (ACC 8710);
Luck of Wadhurst, account books of the Luck(e) family of Lamberhurst, Wadhurst, Albourne and Clapham, 1698-2002 (ACC 8413)
Nevill (Marquesses of Abergavenny) deeds of estates 1822-1946 (ACC 4070), schedule of employees on Eridge Estate 19c, set of OS maps of estate (ACC 4165), photocopy of scrapbook of cuttings etc c1869,-Courthope of Whiligh, Ticehurst 1646-1918
Maps including estates in Ticehurst 1609, Wadhurst 1698, Ticehurst 1775,
Wadhurst Park Estate title deeds (Wadhurst, Mayfield, Ticehurst) (1762)-1949 (ACC 6969)
Wakefield collection of deeds: for Rotherfield and Wadhurst, 1591-1895 (8342);
MAPS
Buxted Park Estate (also Wadhurst) 1654 (copy c1900) (ACC 6554),
Wadhurst: Scrag Oak 1759 (photograph, ACC 4379),
Hightown Estate (Wadhurst Park) 1652 (ACC 4566),
Churchsettle lands (also Ticehurst) 1650’s (ACC 4566),
*Manor of Come (also Mayfield) 1640 (ACC 4701),
Great and Little Shoesmiths and Whitegate Farms (also Frant) 1795 (ACC 5180);
OTHER DEEDS ie Those not listed under other major headings
tenements adjoining the highway from Wadhurst to Ticehurst;Durgates, Wadhurst; 1756-1922 (ACC 8114)
Wadhurst: parsonage and tithes 1602-1858 (ACC 2547)
Apseys Farm 1757-1823 (ACC 2671),
premises 1703-1774 (ACC 4135),
land 1893-1902 (ACC 4322),
houses at Sparrows Green 1755-1866 (ACC 6009),
parts of Whiligh Estate 1824-1890 (ACC 6726),
lands 1513 (ACC 6947),
property in Corsley Street 1590 (ACC 7546),
properties at Cousley Wood 1736-1863, The Vine, Cousley Wood 1728-1820 (ACC 7595),
mortgage of manor of Pycards and Reed Farm, 1864 (ACC 8638);
VARIOUS
Microfilms of antiquarian notes of William Courthope, herald on Ticehurst and Wadhurst 19c (ACC 5012);
Papers of A M Collier, commandant, Wadhurst Voluntary Aid Detachment 1924-1948 (ACC 5321);
Wadhurst photos, etc, re jet fighter crash on High Street 1956 (ACC 6285);
Sale catalogues, Frant, Rotherfield, Ticehurst, Mayfield, Wadhurst 1953-1955 (ACC 6920)
Sale catalogue, Wenbans, Wadhurst, 2001 (ACC 8467)