Duncton, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Duncton, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Duncton, Sussex | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Rotherbridge |
| County | Sussex, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Sutton |
| Registration District | Chichester |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1548 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1571 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Midhurst |
| 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 | |
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
DUNCTON, a parish, in the union of Sutton (under Gilbert's act), hundred of Rotherbridge, rape of Arundel, W. division of Sussex, 3½ miles (S. by W.) from Petworth Near the church are the remains of a hypocaust, discovered in 1815, and also of a Roman bath.[1]
Duncton Holy Trinity is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Sussex, created in 1692 from Petworth, Sussex Genealogy Ancient Parish.
The parish church has been designated as a grade I listed buildingBritish listed building
See also Duncton Wikipedia
Duncton Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)
See: Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 96-102. 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
Centralised Certificates Office
Registration Service
West Sussex Record Office
County Hall
Chichester
PO19 1RN
Phone: 01243 642122
Church records[edit | edit source]
Duncton, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[2] | |||||
| SOPC = Sussex Online Parish Clerks - free[3] | |||||
| TGEN = The Genealogist - (£)[4] |
| Duncton, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| IGI | 1548-1877 | 1548-1876 | ||||
| SOPC | Undefined | Undefined | ||||
| TGEN | 1551-1903 | 1608-1901 | 1551-1904 | |||
Duncton Holy Trinity
West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1548-1913 Marr 1548-1996 Bur 1548-1992
Bishop's Transcripts 1592-1885
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Duncton
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
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. 96-102. Date accessed: 20 September 2013
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Sussex, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 31 December 2013.
- ↑ Sussex Online Parish Clerks, accessed 7 January 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Genealogist, accessed 28 January 2021.
