Bury, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Bury, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Bury, Sussex | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Bury |
| County | Sussex |
| Poor Law Union | Sutton |
| Registration District | Chichester |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1590 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Arundel |
| 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]
BURY, a parish, in the union of Sutton, hundred of Bury, rape of Arundel, W. division of Sussex, 7 miles (S. by E.) from Petworth.[1]
Bury St John the Evangelist is an Ancient Parish in Sussex. Other places in the parish include West Burton.
The parish church has been desingated as a grade I listed building British listed building
Bury Sussex Online Parish Clekrs(OPC)
See Bury Wikipedia
See: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 452-460. [ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50848+ here]
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 Chichester registration district
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]
Bury, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | ||||||
| FREG = FreeReg.org.uk | ||||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] | ||||||
| SOPC = Sussex Online Parish Clerks - free[4] | ||||||
| Bury, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1713-1848, 1880-1890 | |||||
| FREG | 1755-1848 | 1699-1812 | ||||
| IGI | 1558-1712, 1849-1885 | 1558-1881 | ||||
| SOPC | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | |||
West Sussex Record Office has deposited Bishop's Transcripts 1607-1690
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Burwash
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.
See Sussex Census
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Sutton (East Preston) 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. 452-460. 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.
- ↑ Sussex Online Parish Clerks, accessed 7 January 2014.
