Elsted with Treyford and Didling, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
ELSTEAD, a parish, in the union of Midhurst, hundred of Dumpford, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex, 4½ miles (W. by S.) from Midhurst.

Elsted St Paul is an Ancient parish in the civil parish of Elsted with Treyford in the Chichester district of West Sussex. The parish includes Treyford and Didling

The parish includes the church of St Andrew Didling, known as the Shepherds church whose history is described at Didling StAndrew and Information about the church See also Didling Wikipedia



The Parish Church of St Paul Elsted has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

The ruined church of St Mary Trelford has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

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 the history of civil registration can be found at Midhurst 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
Elsted parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Treyford cum Didling parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Didling 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

Poor Law Unions
Midhurst 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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