Chichester All Saints, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Chichester All Saints is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Sussex.

The church is now used by a private company as business premises.

Church History Chichester All Saints in the Pallant

Chichester Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also

Chichester Wikipedia

The church of ALL SAINTS IN THE PALLANT, on the east side of West Pallant, dates from the 13th century and was restored in the 19th century. 'Chichester: Churches (Anglican)', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 3 (1935), pp. 160-164 contains a detailed description of the church.

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
CHICHESTER All Saints records held at West Sussex Record Office Bap 1563-1948 Marr 1564-1951 Bur1563-1918 Bishop’s transcripts1610-1875

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
Chichester 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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