East Wittering, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to East Wittering, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| East Wittering, Sussex | |
|---|---|
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Manhood |
| County | Sussex, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Westhampnett |
| Registration District | Westhampnett |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1658 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1571 | |
| 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]
WITTERING, EAST, a parish, in the union of West Hampnett, hundred of Manhood, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex, 6 miles (S. W. by S.) from Chichester.[1] East Wittering is an Ancient parish in the village and civil parish of East Wittering in the Chichester District of West Sussex.
The history of the Ancient Parish and the church of St Anne (seeEastbourne St Anne Upperton Gardens which is within the Ancient Parish Wittering St Anne and Assumption of St Mary the Virgin
The church of the Assumption of St Mary the Virgin has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building
East Wittering Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)
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 Westhampnett 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]
East Wittering, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| TGEN = The Genealogist - (£)[3] |
| East Wittering, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1571-1572, 1590-1887 | 1571-1572, 1591-1901 (gaps) | ||||
| TGEN | 1656-1902 | 1653-1901 | 1653-1906 | |||
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Wittering, East
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]
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. 636-639. Date accessed: 07 October 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 30 December 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Genealogist, accessed 24 January 2021.
