Houghton, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Houghton



Parish History
Houghton St Nicholas was formed as a chapelry in Amberley, Sussex Ancient Parish and is a parish in the Arun district of West Sussex

Church History Houghton St Nicholas

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

Houghton Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also: Houghton Wikipedia List of places of worship in Arun which includes the closed St Edmund's Houghton Roman Catholic church.

A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 562-566. 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 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
Houghton St Nicholas

West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1560-1999 Marr 1560-1993 Bur 1560-1998

Bishop's Transcripts 1591-1850

Contact West Sussex Record Office 3 Orchard Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1DD Phone: 01243 753602 Fax: 01243 533959 Email: records.office@westsussex.gov.uk

Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

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

Web sites
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