Chichester St Bartholomew, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex

Parish History
Chichester St Bartholomew is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

St. Bartholomew's Without in Mount Lane was built in 1832 and replaced the church destroyed in 1642

See A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 586-593. here.

See also 'Chichester: Churches (Anglican)', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 3 (1935), pp. 160-164. here for a description of the church.

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
CHICHESTER St. Bartholomew records held at West Sussex Record Office Bap 1571-1994 Marr 1573-1641, 1832-1959 Bur 1572-1643, 1673-1914 Bishop’s Transcripts 1610-1892

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

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Chichester 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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