Southwick, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Southwick

Parish History
Southwick is a small town and civil parish in the Adur district of West Sussex. Southwick West Sussex Wikipedia

St Michael and All Angels Southwick Wikipedia is an Ancient Parish.

The history of the church is available at Sussex Parish Churches Southwick St Michael and All Angels

The Parish church of St Michael has been listed as a grade II British Listed building

Southwick Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Other places of worship include

All Souls Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Congregational Church now Southwick Christian Community Church Sussex Parish Clerks Online (OPC) Methodist Church dated from 1876, closed in 1955 and subsequently demolished Southwick Methodist Church Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) St Peter &amp; St Mary (Anglican) dates from 1938 Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) St Theresa of Lisieux Roman Catholic Church Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) The Assembly Room closed 1921

see List of demolished worship places in West Sussex list of places of worship in Adur 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.

From 1837 this parish was in the Steyning Registration District until the 1935 reorganisation of registration services 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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Steyning 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

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.