Shermanbury, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Shermanbury



Parish History
Shermanbury is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex.

Shermanbury St Giles is an Ancient Parish.

Church History Shermanbury St Giles

The Parish church of St Giles has been designated a grade II* listed building British listed building

Shermanbury Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

See also Shermanbury Wikipedia and list of places of worship in Horsham

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 Steyning Registration District until the 1935 reorganisation of registration services 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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

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

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Steyning Poor Law Union, Sussex

Protestation Returns
There are 52 1641 Protestation returns in the database at Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

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

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.