Aldingbourne, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex    Aldingbourne



Parish History
Aldingbourne St Mary is an Ancient parish which includes Lidsey and Westergate and is in the Arun district of West Sussex.

The history of the church may be found Sussex parish churches

The church has been designated a grade I listed building British listed building

Aldinbourne Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

See also Aldingbourne Wikipedia List of places of worhsip in Arun and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 26-31. 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 Westhmpnett 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
Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Aldinbourne St Mary the Virgin

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

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

Web sites
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