Racton with Lordington, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Racton with Lordington is an Ancient Parish and part of the parish boudary forms the county boundary with neighbour Redhill, Hampshire. The church of St Peter is the parish church.

history and images

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Racton like this:

RACTON, a parish in Westbourne district, Sussex; 2¾ miles N N E of Emsworth r. station, and 6¼ W N W of Chichester. It includes the chapelry of Lordington; and itspost-town is Emsworth. Acres, 1, 180. Real property, £1, 306. Pop., 95. Houses, 18. The property is divided among three. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Lordington, in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £183. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church is early English, and contains a fine monument to a Gunter.

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
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Link to the Family History Library 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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