East Marden, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Sussex Parishes

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

Parish History
MARDEN, EAST, a parish, in the union of West Bourne, hundred of Westbourne and Singleton, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex, 8 miles (S. E.) from Petersfield.

East Marden St Peter is an Ancient Parish in the civil parish of Marden in the Chichester district of West Sussex

history and images

The church of St Peter has been designated a grade I listed building British listed building

East Marden Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

East Marden 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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

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
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