Clapham Sussex Family History Guide

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Clapham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1685
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1571

Nonconformists include: 

Adjacent Parishes

  • East Angmering with Angmering
  • Goring by Sea
  • West Tarring
  • Sullington
  • Patching
  • Findon
  • Storrington

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CLAPHAM, a parish in Worthing district, Sussex; 2¼ miles N of Goring r. station, and 5½ E of Arundel. It has a post office under Worthing.

Acres, 1, 794. Real property, £1, 756. Pop., 249. Houses, 42. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £157. Patron, Lady Brooke Pechell. The church has two brasses of the 16th century; and is good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Sussex, Clapham – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Parish register transcripts, 1571-1837
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Clapham (Sussex); Burchall, M. J. (Michael John)

Sussex monumental inscriptions : 25 graveyards – Arun Valley & Worthing outskirts
Author:    Sussex Family History Group

England, Sussex, Clapham – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Clapham, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Sussex, Clapham – Census – Indexes ( 1 )
Clapham, 1851-1881 : an alphabetical names index fo the census enumerator’s schedules for the parish of Clapham, 1851-1881
Author:    Clark, Harry; Clark, Margaret

England, Sussex, Clapham – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Clapham, 1571-1899
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Clapham (Sussex)

Parish register transcripts, 1571-1837
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Clapham (Sussex); Burchall, M. J. (Michael John)

Parish register transcripts, 1571-1838
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Clapham (Sussex)

Parish registers of Clapham, 1685-1902
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Clapham (Sussex); West Sussex Record Office (Chichester, England)

Transcripts of Bishop’s transcripts of Clapham, Sussex, England, 1571-1700
Author:    Challen, W. H. (William Harold); Church of England. Parish Church of Clapham (Sussex)

England, Sussex, Clapham – Land and property ( 1 )
Highway rates of Clapham , 1795-1827
Author:    Clapham (Sussex)

England, Sussex, Clapham – Taxation ( 2 )
Highway rates of Clapham , 1795-1827
Author:    Clapham (Sussex)

Land tax assessments for the parish of Clapham, 1780-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Sussex)

Administration

  • County:    Sussex
  • Civil Registration District:    Worthing
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the
  • Archdeaconry of Chichester
  • Diocese:    Chichester
  • Rural Deanery:    Arundel
  • Poor Law Union:    Sutton
  • Hundred:    Brightford
  • Province:    Canterbury