Sussex County Genealogy Records:

Birth, Death, and Marriage Records in Family Bibles:

• CLIFTON - STRAWHAN Bible
• DEGenWeb Archived Bible Records:
  • COLLINS-SHORT Family Bible
  • HITCH Family Bible
  • HOSEA-SHORT Family Bible
  • MESSICK Family Bible
  • SHORT-MUNSON Family Bible
  • TINGLE Family Bible
  • WARREN - HARGIS Family Bible

More Free Marriage Records:

• Marriages, from "Some Records of Sussex County" compiled 1909 -DEGenWeb Archives
• Index to Marriages of Kent and Sussex Counties -mitsawokett.com
• Marriages Within the Indian Remnant Communities -mitsawokett.com
• Sound Methodist Church Marriage Records -DEGenWeb Archives
• Marriages in Sussex, New Castle & Unknown Counties -mitsawokett.com
• Marriage Records of the Zion Lutheran Church at Oldwick -G. R. Gilbert

Other Records:

• Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800 -Ancestry database

This is a contributed list of couples that got married in Sussex County .

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BEEBE, James A.
WILSON, Annie M
Nov. 14 1864

 

 

• Kent County
• New Castle County

Sussex County Clerk
P.O. Box 589
Georgetown, DE 19947
Order Marriage Certificates

Delaware Genealogy Records on CD-ROM:

DC, DE, MD, VA, 1740-1920 Marriage Index
MD and DE, 1600s-1800s Church Records
New Netherlands, 1600s Vital Records
Veterans' Schedules, 1890 Military Records

Sussex County Quick Facts:

• Date Formed: 1680
• First named Deale County in 1682 merged with  portion of Maryland's Durham County, and was renamed Sussex County.
• County Seat: Georgetown
• Historic Districts - Sussex County
• Cities in Sussex County
  • Bethany Beach
  • Bethel
  • Blades
  • Bridgeville
  • Clarksville
  • Dagsboro
  • Delmar
  • Dewey Beach
  • Ellendale
  • Fenwick Island
  • Frankford
  • Georgetown (County Seat)
  • Greenwood
  • Harbeson
  • Laurel
  • Lewes
    1791 county seat moved from Lewes to Georgetown.
  • Lewes Beach
  • Lincoln
  • Long Neck
  • Milford
  • Millsboro
  • Millville
  • Milton
  • Nassau
  • Ocean View
  • Oceanview
  • Rehobeth
  • Rehoboth
  • Rehoboth Beach
  • Seaford
  • Selbyville