Heyshott, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
Heyshott St James is a parish created from the Ancient Parish of Stedham, Sussex, the church from the 17th century until 1882 was a chapelry.

The Parish Church has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Heyshott is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex.

Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) Heyshott St James

See Heyshott Wikipedia

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

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
Heyshott (GENUKI)