Sennicotts, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Sussex Parishes

Parish History
SENNICOTTS, a chapelry in Funtington parish, Sussex; 2½ miles N W of Chichester railway station. Post-town, Chichester. The statistics are returned with the parish. S. House is the seat of Teesdale, Esq. The living is annexed to Funtington. The church is good.

Sennicotts St Mary is an estate chapel for Sennicotts Estate which formed an Ecclesiastical Parish from Funtington, Sussex Ancient Parish from 1829-1930 when it was absorbed again by the Ancient Parish.

Sennicotts Wikipedia

Funtington Parish information

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
Link to the FamilySearch 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.

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