The Sussex People Index consists of any names that anyone can submit - the only condition is that the event reported must happen in Sussex and there must be an identifiable source (not a Website please).

To obtain information from S.P.I. :
- for all entries for a surname, send me the surname
- to have a search for a particular person, send me the surname and forename and approximate date(s) and perhaps conjectured location within Sussex.

Wills' beneficiaries witnesses and lawyers, information from Birth Marriage or Death certificates, tax records, settlement orders, masters and apprentices, landowners, licences issued to publicans, magistrates, churchwardens, names taken from a book which has been indexed, etc. (Note that index entries from books must not be scanned but typed lest there is breach of copyright.)

There are 71,200 entries referring to 140,000 people with 10,000 surnames (excluding variants). It does NOT include marriages before 1837 or any baptisms, burials, monumental inscriptions, or census, which have their own indexes. It does include all the names from the SFHG Will Depository (about 25,000 beneficiaries, witnesses,etc).

It includes over 4000 witnesses from the Sussex Marriage Index : Alciston to Bosham.

First character of Surnames in the SFHG Sussex People Index database

Do you have you data to add?

To consult or contribute check the box to email Judy Excell for more information, marking your email : S.P.I.

Any amendments and additions to the Sussex Marriage Index CD are added to the SPI and may also be found on the SMI queries page.