Up Marden, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Up Marden

Parish History
Up Marden is a small village in the Chichester district of West Sussex.

Up Marden was formed as chapelry within Compton, Sussex Ancient Parish and included West Marden.

history and images

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

Up Marden Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Up Marden 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
Up Marden St Michael

Baptisms 1714-1900 Marriages 1755-1900 Burials 1813-1900 (General registers prior to 1812)

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

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.

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

Web sites
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