Climping, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
CLIMPING, a parish, in the union of East Preston (under Gilbert's act), hundred of Avisford, rape of Arundel, W. division of Sussex, 7 miles (S. S. W.) from Arundel.

Climping St Mary (otherwise spelt Clymping) is an Ancient Parish in the Arun district of West Sussex which includes Cudlow within the parish boundary.

A church history Climping St Mary

The parish church of St Mary has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Climping Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Climping wikipedia and List of places of worship in Arun

A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 635-639. 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 Worthing registration district which was abolished in 1870 and recreated in 1935 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:

Climping St Mary West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1710-1981 Marr 1719-1979 Bur 1678-1974

Bishop's Transcripts 1571-1984

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

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