New Fishbourne, Sussex Genealogy

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

Parish History
FISHBOURN, NEW (St. Peter and St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Westhampnett, hundred of Box and Stockbridge, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex, 1¼ mile (W.) from Chichester.

New Fishbourne St Peter and St Mary is in the village and civil parish of Fishbourne in the Chichester District of West Sussex.

The church of St Peter and St Mary Appeldram Lane Fishbourne which has 13th century origins has been designated as a grade II listed building; see British listed building.

Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC),

New Fishbourne St Peter and St Mary (OPC) There is also a One Place Study of New Fishbourne; see New Fishbourne - A One Place Study by (Steve Pickthall) which includes an alphabetical list of names and Census transcripts.

Fishbourne Primitive Methodist Chapel. See List of demolished worship places in West Sussex.(Wikipedia)

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The FamilySearch 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 Westhampnett registration district From 1935 this became part of 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
Fishbourne 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

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census records
See Sussex Census

The OPC for New Fishbourne also has a One Place Study of New Fishbourne Steve Pickthall One Place Study of New Fishbourne which includes an alphabetical list of names and Census transcripts

Poor Law Unions
Westhampnett 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

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/NewFishbourne/