Lancing, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Sussex Parishes

Parish History
LANCING, a parish, in the hundred of Brightford, rape of Bramber, W. division of Sussex, 2 miles (W.) from Shoreham.

Lancing St James the Less is an Ancient Parish in Adur district of West Sussex.

see a history of the church and subsequent Development of Lancing St Michael from 1923 Lancing St James and St Michael

The Parish Church of St James has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Lancing Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Lancing Wikipedia

See: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 17-20. 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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Lancing St James

West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1574-1970 Marr 1560-1989 Bur 1560-1953

Bishop's Transcripts 1591-1918 Link to the FamilySearch 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
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