Lyminster, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
LEOMINSTER, or LYMINSTER, a parish in Worthing district, Sussex; on the South Coast railway, at the quondam Arundel station, 1½ mile E of Ford Junction station, near the river Arun, and 2 miles SSE of Arundel. It contains the hamlets of Crossbush, Toddington, and Wick.

Lyminster St Mary Magdalene is an Ancient Parish in the Arun district of West Sussex. Other places in the parish include: Toddington, Warningcamp, Crossbush, and Wick.

history and images

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

Lyminster Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Lyminster Wiikipedia List of places of worship in Arun which includes Warningcamp St Barnabas former church Warningcamp Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Warningcamp Chapel Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 68-74. 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 Centralized 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:

West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1565-1985 Marr 1566-1976 Bur 1566-1964

Bishop's Transcripts 1551-1874

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

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

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

Websites
http://genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Lyminster/