Rustington, Sussex Genealogy

England Sussex    Rustington



Parish History
Rustington St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish in the Arun district of West Sussex.

A history of the church Rustington St Peter and St Paul

The Parish Church of St Peter and Saint Paul has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

Rustington Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) List of demolished worship places in West Sussex

See also Rustington Wikipedia List of places of worship in Arun and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 717-719. here

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 Worthing registration district which was abolished in 1870 and recreated in 1935 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
West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1569-1896 Marr 1569-1961 Bur 1569-1932

Bishop's Transcripts 1593-1906

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

Add link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
East Preston Poor Law Union, Sussex

Sutton (East Preston) 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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