North Stoke, Sussex Genealogy

England Sussex  Sussex Parishes

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

Parish History
STOKE (North), a parish in Worthing district, Sussex; on the river Arnn, two miles North of Arundel railway station. Post town, Arundel. North Stoke St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex.

The history of the church North Stoke St Mary

Sussex online Parish Clerks OPC

See also North Stoke West Sussex 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.

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 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

Census records
See Sussex Census

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