Stoughton, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex     Stoughton

Parish History
Stoughton is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex

Stoughton St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex and part of its parish boundary forms the county boundary with neighbours Idsworth, Hampshire and Redhill, Hampshire

history and images

The parish church of St Mary Stoughton has been designated a grade I listed building British Listed Building

Stoughton Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Within this parish Stansted, Sussex and the chapel/St Paul's Church were formed as well as Christ Church Forest Side Christ Church Forest Side Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Other places of worship include

Walderton Methodist Chapel Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

See also Stoughton 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.

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
Westbourne 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.