Egdean, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Egdean



Parish History
Egdean St Bartholomew is an Ancient parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex. Egdean is part of the civil parish of Petworth West Sussex.

The church of St Bartholomew has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Egdean Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also:

Egdean Wikipedia and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 147-150. here

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 Chichester 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
West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1646-1989 Marr 1665-1773, 1837-1990 Bur 1665-1989

Bishop's Transcripts 1630-1908

Link to the Family History Library film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
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

Web sites
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