Chichester St Peter the Great, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex

Parish History
Chichester St Peter the Great is an Ancient Parish

See Chichester: Churches (Anglican)', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 3 (1935), pp. 160-164. here for description of the church and registers

The church of St Peter the Great in West Street was consecrated in 1852 and has been designated as a grade B listed building by English Heritage British listed building

See also Chichester 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
CHICHESTER St. Peter the Great, alias SubDeanery records held at West Sussex Record Office Bap 1558-1978 Marr 1558-1980 Bur 1568-1921 Bishop’s transcripts 1610-1894

Contact West Sussex Record Office 3 Orchard Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1DD Phone: 01243 753602 Fax: 01243 533959 Email: records.office@westsussex.gov.uk Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Chichester 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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