Rustington, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Rustington, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Rustington, Sussex | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Poling |
County | Sussex, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | East Preston |
Registration District | Worthing |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1568 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1593 | |
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 | |
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
RUSTINGTON, a parish, in the hundred of Poling, rape of Arundel, W. division of Sussex, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Littlehampton. It is bounded on the south by the English Channel. The church is in the early English style.[1]
A history of the church Rustington St Peter and St Paul
The Parish Church of St Peter and Saint Paul has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building
Rustington Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) List of demolished worship places in West Sussex
See also Rustington Wikipedia List of places of worship in Arun and Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 717-719. 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 Worthing registration district
which was abolished in 1870 and recreated in 1935
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]
Rustington, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[2] | |||||
PRTS = The Parish Register Transcription Society - (£)[3] |
Rustington, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
IGI | 1569-1877 | 1569-1876 | ||||
PRTS | 1569-1901 | 1569-1901 | 1569-1901 |
West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1569-1896 Marr 1569-1961 Bur 1569-1932
Bishop's Transcripts 1593-1906
Add link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Rustington
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]
East Preston Poor Law Union, Sussex
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]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Rustington/
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 717-719. Date accessed: 30 September 2013
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Sussex, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 2 January 2014.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 15 December 2013.