Singleton, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
SINGLETON, a parish, in the union of West Hampnett, hundred of Westbourn and Singleton, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex, 6 miles (S.) from Midhurst. Contains also the hamlet of Charlton. The village is situated on the road from London to Chichester, by way of Midhurst.

Singleton is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex. Singleton West Sussex Wikipedia

Singleton St Mary is an Ancient Parish and the history of the church may be found at Sussex Parish Churches Singleton St Mary The Ancient Parish included the hamlet of Charlton Charlton West Sussex Wikipedia

The Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary Charlton Road Singleton has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

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 this parish was in the Westhmpnett registration district From 1935 this became part of 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
Singleton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).

Census records
See Sussex Census



Poor Law Unions
Westhampnett Poor Law Union, Sussex

Protestation Returns
There are 80 1641 protestation returns in the database for this parish at Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

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
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Singleton/