Chichester St Pancras, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Chichester St Pancras is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex. Other places in the parish include: Kingsham Farm.

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

The church of St. Pancras dates from 1750–51 on the site of an earlier church, partially demolished in 1642 and has been designated as a grade B listed building by English Heritage British listed building

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

See also Chichester Wikipedia

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. Pancras records held at West Sussex Record Office Bap 1559-1950 Marr 1558-1942 Bur 1558-1904 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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