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 Secondary

For William Watson & Jane

Hannah Watson | Baptism 19 Jan 1819 | Brede | Father William Watson | Mother Jane Watson

One of four baptisms to William and Jane Watson at Brede between 1815 and 1824 (Sarah 1815, Hannah 1819, Thomas 1822, James 1824), relayed verbatim from a signed-in browser 2026-09-08. A CHECKED NEGATIVE recorded here because it matters for this couple: their MARRIAGE is not in East Sussex. Ancestry 62126 (East Sussex marriages and banns 1754-1936) searched for William Watson with spouse Jane, 1803-1815, returns nothing at all, and the only William Watson marriages in the county in that window are 6 May 1803 at Hastings St Clement to Sarah Giles and 24 May 1814 at Mountfield to Elizabeth Jarret. Positive control: the same collection returns Thomas Crassingham to Keziah Noakes at Rye on 3 August 1804. So they married outside East Sussex - Kent is the obvious neighbour to try - or before 1803. Jane's maiden name is still unknown and is not invented here.