Ashington with Buncton, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Ashington, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Ashington with Buncton, Sussex | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | West Grinstead |
| County | Sussex |
| Poor Law Union | Thakeham |
| Registration District | Thakeham |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1736 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1571 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Storrington |
| Diocese | Chichester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Chichester |
| Location of Archive | |
| Sussex Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
ASHINGTON cum Buncton (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Thakeham, hundred of West Grinstead, rape of Bramber, W. division of Sussex, 5 miles (N. W.) from Steyning, and on the road from London to Worthing. At Buncton is a chapel of ease, with remains of Norman arches on the outside of the chancel.[1]
The church of St Peter and St Paul has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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 Thakeham Registration district until 1935 when that district was abolished in service reorganization
Certificates can be ordered from West Sussex
Centralized Certificates Office
Registration Service
West Sussex Record Office
County Hall
Chichester
PO19 1RN
Phone: 01243 642122
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Ashington with Buncton, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)[3] | |||||
| SOPC = Ashington Sussex Online Parish Clerks | |||||
| TGEN = The Genealogist - (£)[4] |
| ASHINGTON WITH BUNCTON PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1611-1810 | |||||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
| SOPC | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | |||
| TGEN | 1571-1900 | 1583-1900 | 1571-1901 | |||
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Ashington
Non-Conformists (All other Religions)[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Thakeham Poor Law Union, Sussex
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 88-90. Date Accessed: 16 September 2013
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Genealogist, accessed 15 November 2020.
