Chichester St Bartholomew, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Chichester St Bartholomew

Parish History
Chichester St Bartholomew is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

St. Bartholomew's Without in Mount Lane was built in 1832 and replaced the church destroyed in 1642

Church History Chichester St Bartholomew Without

Chichester Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 586-593. here.

See also

Chichester Wikipedia

'Chichester: Churches (Anglican)', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 3 (1935), pp. 160-164. here for a description of the church.

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
CHICHESTER St. Bartholomew records held at West Sussex Record Office Bap 1571-1994 Marr 1573-1641, 1832-1959 Bur 1572-1643, 1673-1914 Bishop’s Transcripts 1610-1892

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 Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection no results found

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Chichester 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Web sites
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