Boxgrove, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Boxgrove, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Boxgrove, Sussex | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Box and Stockbridge |
| County | Sussex, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Westhampnett |
| Registration District | Westhampnett |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1561 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1584 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Boxgrove |
| 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]
BOXGROVE (St. Mary and St. Blase), a parish, in the union of West Hampnett, hundred of Box and Stockbridge, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex, 3½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Chichester; containing, with the hamlets of Crocker-Hill, East Hampnett, and part of Seabeach, and the tythings of Halnaker and Strellington.[1]
Boxgrove St Mary and St Blaise is an Ancient Parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex.
A history of St Mary and St Blaise is avalable Boxgrove St Mary and St Blaise and refers to the ruined Priory.
The Priory Church of St Mary and St Blaise has been designated a grade I listed building British listed building
Boxgrove Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)
See also Wikipedia
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 Westhmpnett 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[edit | edit source]
Boxgrove, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Boxgrove, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1880-1885 | |||||
| IGI | 1560-1885 | 1594-1812 | ||||
| PRTS | 1561-1901 | 1561-1900 | 1561-1901 | |||
| SOPC | Undefined | Undefined | ||||
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Boxgrove
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
See Sussex Census
Genealogy[edit | edit source]
Linter, Graham. In Search of the Linter Family. Article about searching for the Linters of Boxgrove, and the family dispersing, with a family tree with dates starting 1774-1902. To be found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol.XII, no.4, Feb 1986, pages 244-246, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h v.12
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Westhampnett 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. 320-323. Date accessed: 20 September 2013
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 30 December 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Sussex, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 3 January 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 22 December 2013.
- ↑ Sussex Online Parish Clerks, accessed 7 January 2014.
