North Bersted, Sussex Genealogy

Parish History
The area of North Bersted is part of the Bognor Regis area but lies in the civil parish of Bersted in the Arun district of West Sussex North Bersted Wikipedia

North Bersted Holy Cross was formed from the South Bersted, Sussex parish in 1894 as a mission church but became a parish in 2001.

Sussex Parish Churches Bognor Regis Holy Cross North Bersted

Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

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.

From 1837 Bersted was in the Chichester registration district

Certificates can be ordered from West Sussex Centralised Certificates Office Registration Service West Sussex Record Office County Hall Chichester PO19 1RN Phone: 01243 642122

Church Records
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

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

Websites
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren't mentioned above.