Southbourne, Sussex Genealogy

Guide to Southbourne, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Southbourne, '''eccl. dist'''. and vil., Westbourne par., Sussex, 2½ miles E. of Havant. Southbourne is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex.

Southbourne was originally a chapelry of Westbourne, Sussex Ancient Parish until 1878 when the Church of St John the Evangelist became the ecclesiastical parish.

history and images

Southbourne Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Other places of worship include

Emmanuel Free Church Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Former Methodist Chapel, Nutbourne Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Southbourne Wikipedia

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Southbourne parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Westbourne Poor Law Union, Sussex

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Sussex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain