Broadwater, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
BROADWATER (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Preston (under Gilbert's act), hundred of Brightford, rape of Bramber, W. division of Sussex; containing, with the town of Worthing. There are two churches at Worthing, forming separate incumbencies. In the north of the parish is an eminence called Cissbury Hill. Broadwater St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex. Other places in the parish include: Worthing.

Church History Worthing St Mary Broadwater and Worthing Churches history

See also:

Sussex Online Parish Clerks

Broadwater West Sussex Wikipedia

A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 389-392. here

See Worthing, Sussex for subsequent parish formations for the town from this parish.

See Broadwater Burial Index (http://www.worthing.gov.uk/dev/burialsearch/default.asp) Broadwater parish is a part of the Borough of Worthing 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 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&lt;br&gt;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 1558-1974 Marr 1558-1974 Bur 1558-1562, 1601-1895

Bishop's Transcripts 1571-1936 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

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