Iping, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex

Parish History
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Iping St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex and the chapelry of Chithurst,_Sussex was formed from it. Part of the parish boundary of Iping forms the county boundary with neighbour Bramshott,_Hampshire The second chapelry of the parish was built at Iping marsh in 1878.

Church histories Iping St Mary Iping Marsh Good Shepherd The small chapel of Iping Marsh was declared redundant in 1980 and later demolished.

Iping Sussex Online Parish Clerks(OPC)

See also Iping Wikipedia for the civil parish of Stedham with Iping

Civil Registration
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 Centralised Certificates Office Registration Service West Sussex Record Office County Hall Chichester PO19 1RN Phone: 01243 642122

Church records
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Link to the Family History Library Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Sussex Census

Poor Law Unions
Midhurst Poor Law Union, Sussex

Probate records
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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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