Worthing Christ Church, Sussex Genealogy

Guide to Worthing Christ Church, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Parish History
Worthing Christ Church was formed as a chapel of ease to Broadwater, Sussex and to provide a burial ground for the poor of Worthing. It was consecrated thus in 1843 but by 1855 it became an Ecclesiastical Parish formed from Broadwater, Sussex

Sussex Parish Churches have a history of Worthing Churches Worthing Introduction

The history of the church is found at Worthing Christ Church Grafton Road

Worthing Christ Church Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) and Worthing Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Other places of worship in Worting include

Chapel Street, Independent Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Holy Trinity (Anglican) Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Sussex Parish Churches St Mary of the Angels (Roman Catholic) Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) St Matthew (Anglican) Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) Sussex Parish Churches

Christ Church Worthing Wikipedia and list of places of worship in Worthing Wikipedia

See Worthing: Churches', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 1: Bramber Rape (Southern Part) (1980), pp. 119-122. + here

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Sussex Record Office and The Keep (which houses the collections of the East Sussex Record Office).

Census records
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions. Category:England Family History Centres to locate local Family History Centres in UK Introduction to Family History Centers to locate outside UK. Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Ancestry UK Census Collection

Find my Past census search 1841-1901

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search

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