Earnley and Almodington, Sussex Genealogy

Guide to Earnley and Almondington, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
EARNLEY, a parish, in the union of West Hampnett, hundred of Manhood, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex, 6½ miles (S. W. by S.) from Chichester; The   is in the early English style. A place of worship for Independents was opened in 1839.

Earnley is an Ancient parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex and includes the small hamlet Almodington within the parish. The former church at Almodington was one of the poorest livings in the Diocese before the demise of the church The history of the church is here For history of the church at Almodington see Almodington Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) and Sussex Parish Churches

The church has no recorded dedication and has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Earnley Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) see also Earnley 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.

From 1837 this parish was in the Westhampnett registration district

From 1935 this became part of Chichester registration district

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
Earnley and Almodington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Westhampnett 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