Nuthurst, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
NUTHURST (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Horsham, hundred of Singlecross, rape of Bramber, West division of Sussex, 3¾ miles South South East from Horsham. The road from Horsham to Worthing runs through the parish on the east. There is a place of worship for '''Wesleyans. ''' Nuthurst St Andrew is an Ancient parish in the village and civil parish of Nuthurst in the Horsham district of West Sussex. Other hamlets within the Anglican Ancient Parish include Maplehurst, Mannings Heath, Copsale, Monks Gate and Sedgwick.

The history of St Andrew and Good Shepherd Mannings Heath are found at Sussex Parish Churches Nuthurst St Andrew

Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) includes places of worship

Congregational Mission Chapel, Maplehurst dates from 1893 Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) The Good Shepherd, Mannings Heath Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) and Good Shepherd Mannings Heath history Wesleyan Chapel, Manning's Heath dates from 1809 Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

See also Mannings Heath Wikipedia

Church of the Holy Nativity see List of demolished worship places in West Sussex

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 Horsham 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
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

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Poor Law Unions
Horsham 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://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Nuthurst/