Slindon, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Sussex Parishes

Parish History
SLINDON (St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Aldwick, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex, 4¼ miles (W. by N.) from Arundel. Slindon House, the seat of the Countess Dowager of Newburgh, was originally built by one of the archbishops of Canterbury, and was for some time the residence of the celebrated Archbishop Langton, who died here in the reign of Henry III. The church is in the later English style. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

Church history Slindon St Mary

The Parish Church of St Mary has been designated asa grade I listed building British listed building

See also :

Slindon Wikipedia List of places of worship in Arun and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 120-123. here

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

Slindon St Mary

West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1558-1957 Marr 1559-2001 Bur 1558-1984

Bishop's Transcripts 1610-1902

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

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Sutton (East Preston) 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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