East Angmering with Angmering, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
ANGMERING, EAST and WEST (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Preston (under Gilbert's act), hundred of Poling, rape of Arundel, W. division of Sussex, 5 miles (S. E. by E.) from Arundel.

Angmering St Margaret is an Ancient Parish Other places in the parish include: Angmering, Ham and Bargham, Ham, and Bargham. Angmering is within the Arun district of West Sussex.

The church of St Margaret has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Angmering Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 58-62. here

See also Wikipedia

The former Angmering Baptist Church is now a private residential dwelling and has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building See also Angmering Baptist Church Wikipedia for history of non-conformist churches in the West Sussex area.

See also List of places of worship in Arun which includes closed and disused churches in Angmering

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 Worthing registration district which was abolished in 1870 and recreated in 1935 Certificates can be ordered from West Sussex Centralized Certificates Office Registration Service West Sussex Record Office County Hall Chichester PO19 1RN Phone: 01243 642122

Church Records
East Angmering with Angmering 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
East Preston Poor Law Union, Sussex

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.

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