Stopham, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Stopham, Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Stopham, Sussex | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Rotherbridge |
| County | Sussex |
| Poor Law Union | Thakeham |
| Registration District | Thakeham |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1544 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1572 | |
| 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]
STOPHAM (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Thakeham, hundred of Rotherbridge, rape of Arundel, W. division of Sussex, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) from Petworth. It is watered by the river Arun, over which is a bridge of seven arches, built in the reign of Edward II. The church is partly in the early and partly in the decorated English style, with a square tower; the pavement is almost entirely composed of large slabs of Sussex marble, inlaid with brass figures and memorials of the Barttelot family, and in the windows are representations of some of the Barttelots and Stophams in stained glass, said to have been removed from the ball windows of the old manor-house.[1]
A church history Stopham St Mary
The Parish Church of St Mary Stopham has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building
Stopham Sussex Online Parish Clerks
See also Stopham Wikipedia
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 Thakeham Registration district until 1935 when that district was abolished in service reorganisation
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]
Stopham, 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] |
| Stopham, Sussex Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| IGI | 1544-1879 | 1540s-1876 | ||||
| PRTS | 1544-1914 | 1544-1900 | 1545-1915 | |||
Links to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Stopham
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.
1911 Census For England & Wales
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Thakeham 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/Stopham/
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 229-234. Date Accessed: 4 October 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 22 December 2013.
