North Mundham, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
MUNDHAM (North), a village and a parish in West-Hampnett district, Sussex. The village stands on the Arundel and Portsmouth canal, two miles South East by South of Chichester railway station; and has a post-office under Chichester. The parish contains also the hamlets of Fisher and Runckton. North Mundham is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex North Mundham Wikipedia. North Mundham St Stephen is an extensive Ancient Parish which included Runckton and Fisher.

Sussex Parish Churches history of the church North Mundham St Stephen

The parish church of Saint Stepehn North Mundham has been designated asa grade II* listed building British listed building

Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) North Mundham

See List of demolished worship places in 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 Westhmpnett registration district From 1935 this became part of 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
North Mundham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Westhampnett Poor Law Union, Sussex

Protestation Returns
Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) database has 65 entries in the 1641 Protestation returns for this parish.

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/NorthMundham/