Slindon, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex

Parish History
Slindon St Mary is an Ancient Parish in West Sussex.

SLINDON (St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Aldwick, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex,4¼ miles (W. by N.) from Arundel; containing 544 inhabitants. The parish comprises 2504a. 2r. 6p., of which 777 acres are arable, 475 meadow and pasture,968 woodland, and 237 common: the surface is varied.Slindon House, the seat of the Countess Dowager of Newburgh, was originally built by one of the archbishops of Canterbury, and was for some time the residence ofthe celebrated Archbishop Langton, who died here in the reign of Henry III.; the present mansion, erected by Sir George Kemp in the reign of Elizabeth, is a handsome structure, on a bold eminence. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £14. 13. 1½., and in the patronage of the Countess: the tithes have been commuted for £270, and the glebe comprises 43 acres.The church is in the later English style. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 120-123. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51283 Date accessed: 08 May 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Sutton (East Preston) 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.

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