Racton with Lordington, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Sussex Parishes

Parish History
RACTON, (St Peter) a parish, in the union of West Bourne, hundred of Westbourne and Singleton, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex, 6½ miles (N. W. by W.) from Chichester. The church is principally in the early English style, and contains several interesting monuments to the Gocenter family. Sir Richard Pole, and Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, his wife, resided at Lordington; where, also, Cardinal Pole was born. The living of Lordington was united to that of Racton in 1440.

Racton with Lordington is an Ancient Parish and part of the parish boundary forms the county boundary with neighbor Redhill, Hampshire. The hamlet of Racton is within the civil parish of Stoughton within the Chichester District of West Sussex.

history and images

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

Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

See also Racton Wikipedia Stoughton West Sussex Wikipedia

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.

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

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

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

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Westbourne 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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