Church register

East Sussex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920

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Denomination: Church of England
Place: East Sussex, England
Register type: baptism
Years covered: 1813-1920
Archive reference: East Sussex Record Office
Provider: Ancestry
Collection id: 62125
Form accessed: index

ancestry.com.au ↗ retrieved 2026-09-08 Added manually

Ancestry's index to the post-1813 East Sussex baptism registers, with images. Browser-and-signed-in only: a plain fetch of a record URL returns HTTP 200 with a 'Join Ancestry' signup page and no record data, tested 2026-09-08. The collection routinely keys ONE baptism several times, and not always consistently - Richard Crossingham's 1813 entry appears four times across two parishes because two registers recorded it, and this Watson entry appears twice under different years because the page header spans '1814 & 15'. A count of hits is not a count of events, and a year in this index is not a year in the register.

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East Sussex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 Record Id 1981963 Secondary

For “Baptised” 12 JAN 1815 of Sarah Jane Watson

SelfName Sarah Watson | SelfGender Female | SelfBaptismDate 12 Jan 1815 | SelfBaptismParish Brede | Father William Watson | Mother Jane Watson

Ancestry's index entry for the register line above, relayed verbatim from a signed-in browser 2026-09-08 in the index's own field order. Kept as a second citation because it is the finding aid that located the image; the image (source 1956) is the evidence. Its twin, record 204484, gives the year as 1814 - see the image citation for why 1815 is right.

East Sussex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 Secondary

For “Residence” FROM 1815 TO 1824 of William Watson

James Watson | Baptism 29 Feb 1824 | Brede | Father William Watson | Mother Jane Watson

The last of the four Brede baptisms to this couple, relayed verbatim from a signed-in browser 2026-09-08 in the index's own field order; the first is Sarah's on 12 January 1815, read from the register page itself (media 400), where the abode column says Brede and the trade column labourer. Four baptisms nine years apart in one parish is what this residence event records. IT ALSO BEARS ON A LARGER QUESTION: whether the Watsons followed their daughter to New South Wales. They had not left Brede by February 1824, fourteen years before Sarah sailed on the James Pattison. Their burials have not been found - an Ancestry 62128 sweep for Watson burials 1815-1865 keyed to Brede returned 61 rows with no Brede or Udimore in the place column, but the keyword filter there is unreliable and that is NOT a settled negative.