Portslade, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Portslade

Parish History
Portslade is the name of part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex Portslade Wikipedia

The Ancient parish church of St Nicolas St Nicolas Sussex Online Parish clerks (OPC) has surviving registers from 1666

The history of the Anglican churches in Portslade is described Sussex Parish Churches Portslade Churches

Portslade Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

other places of worship include

Baptist Church Cemetery Chapel City Coast Church Former Baptist Church Former Kingdom Hall Former Windlesham School Chapel Kingdom Hall Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Denis Salvation Army Citadel Southern Cross Evangelical Church St Andrew St Mary's Mass Centre St Marye's Convent United Reformed Church Wesleyan Church

See also list of places of worship in Brighton and Hove 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 Steyning registration district until the 1935 reorganisation of registration services Certificates can be ordered from Brighton &amp; Hove The Register Office Brighton Town Hall Bartholomew Square Brighton BN1 1JA 01273 292016 01273 292019 register.office@brighton hove.gov.uk

Church records
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records.

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

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Steyning 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
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.