Bognor, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex    Bognor

Parish History
Bognor may refer to:

Pagham, Sussex the Ancient parish, a peculiar of the Archbishop of Cantebury

An introduction to Bognor church history Bognor

Bognor Regis St Mary Magdalene, South Bersted St Mary Magdalene South Bersted Church history Restored in 1872 by E.Christian The original parent church of Bognor; the church has been designated as a grade B listed building British listed building

Bognor Regis St John the Baptist Steyne St John the Baptist Steyne church history This was replaced by Bognor Regis Holy Trinity London Road built in 1883 and demolished in 1970-1971Holy Trinity church history

Bognor Regis Holy Cross North Bersted built in 1890 as a mission church with later additions and created a separate parish in 2001 Cross Church history

Bognor Regis St Wilfrid Victoria Drive built 1908-1910 St Wilfrid Victoria Drive church history

Bognor Regis St Richard Aldwick built in 1933-1934 replaced the iron mission church of Pagham, Sussex Ancient Parish which had been built in 1881 St Richard Aldwick church history

For other places of worship in the town see Bognor Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also:

Bognor Regis Wikipedia list of places of worship in Arun

List of demolished worship places in West Sussex

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 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
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

FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal: Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions. to locate local Family History Centres in UK to locate outside UK. Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Ancestry UK Census Collection

Find my Past census search 1841-1901

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search

Poor Law Unions
Westhampnett 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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