Climping, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex

Parish History
Climping St Mary (otherwise spelt Clymping) is an Ancient Parish in 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

See also Climping wikipedia

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.

Church records
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

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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
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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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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