Upper Beeding, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Upper Beeding, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Upper Beeding, Sussex | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Burbeach |
County | Sussex, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Steyning |
Registration District | Steyning |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1544 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1606 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Lewes |
Diocese | Chichester |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes |
Location of Archive | |
Sussex Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BEEDING (St. Peter), a parish, partly in the union of Steyning, and partly in that of Horsham, hundred of Burbeach, rape of Bramber, W. division of Sussex; comprising Upper and Lower Beeding. The church consists of a nave and chancel separated by a screen, with a low embattled tower at the west end, and seems to have had formerly a south aisle, as there are two arches remaining in the south wall. An alien priory of Benedictine monks was founded about 1075.[1]
Beeding St Peter is an Ancient Parish which includes Baybush ( sometimes Bewbush) King's Barns and Holmbush. The village and civil parish of Upper beeding is a modern name change, the settlement was referred to as Beeding and is in the Horsham district of West Sussex. The ecclesiastical parish of Beeding St Peter is within the civil parish of Upper Beeding.
Church history Upper Beeding St Peter
The church has been designated a grade II* listed building British listed building
Upper Beeding Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC) Upper Beeding Mission Hall see List of demolished worship places in West Sussex
See also Upper Beeding Wikipedia list of places of worship in Horsham district
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 Steyning Registration District until the 1935 reorganisation of registration services
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]
Upper Beeding, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
PRTS = The Parish Register Transcription Society - (£)[2] |
Upper Beeding, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
PRTS | 1544-1901 | 1548-1900 | 1546-1901 |
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Beeding, Upper
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.
1911 Census For England & Wales
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Steyning 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/UpperBeeding/
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 194-199. Date Accessed: 4 October 2013
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 15 December 2013.