Northchapel, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Northchapel, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Northchapel, Sussex | |
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Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Rotherbridge |
County | Sussex |
Poor Law Union | Midhurst |
Registration District | Midhurst |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1716 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1592 | |
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]
NORTHCHAPEL (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Midhurst, hundred of Rotherbridge, rape of Arundel, W. division of Sussex, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Petworth.[1]
A history of the Church may be found North Chapel St John the Baptist The present church of St Michael replaced this earlier church in 1878 and an interim church dated from 1833 which retained the tower. Further detail may be found at Northchapel Wikipedia
The parish Church of St Michael has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building
Northchapel 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 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]
Northchapel, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
PRTS = The Parish Register Transcription Society - (£)[3] |
Northchapel, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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BIVRI | 1716-1837 | |||||
PRTS | 1716-1901 | 1716-1901 | 1716-1901 |
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://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/NorthChapel/
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 423-433. Date accessed: 30 September 2013
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 30 December 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 15 December 2013.