Midhurst, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Midhurst, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Midhurst, Sussex | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Easebourne |
| County | Sussex |
| Poor Law Union | Midhurst |
| Registration District | Midhurst |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1565 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1591 | |
| 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 | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
MIDHURST (St. Denis), a borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Easebourne, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex, 11½ miles (N. by E.) from Chichester, and 49¼ (S. W.) from London.[1]
Midhurst St Mary Magdalene and St Denys is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Sussex, created in 1725 from chapelry in Easebourne, Sussex Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: St John of Jerusalem.
The history of this church Midhurst
The Parish church of St Mary Midhurst has been designated a grade II* listed building British listed building
Midhurst Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)
See also Midhurst Wikipedia and Congregational Church List of demolished worship places in West Sussex
A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 310-313. 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 the history of civil registration can be found at Midhurst 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]
Midhurst, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| MIDHURST PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1653-1775 | |||||
| IGI | 1565-1876 | 1565-1876 | ||||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
| SOPC | Undefined | |||||
| TGEN | 1565-1901 | 1565-1900 | 1565-1900 | |||
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Midhurst
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.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Midhurst 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]
http://genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Midhurst/
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 310-313. Date accessed: 30 September 2013
- ↑ 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county', Origins.net (Wayback Machine), accessed 30 December 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Sussex, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 2 January 2014.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes.
- ↑ Sussex Online Parish Clerks, accessed 7 January 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Genealogist, accessed 20 January 2021.
