Catalogue description SOUTH AMBERSHAM

Church of England, South Ambersham parish, West Sussex

The items in sections Par/5/21, 30, 31, 32/1, 32/4, 37-41 and 44 were deposited by the rector of Selham, April 1949 and June 1957

North and South Ambersham were both originally tithings of Steep in Hampshire, and neither have ever had a parish church. Until the 19th century their inhabitants would have been expected to go to Steep for baptisms, marriages and burials - although there is little evidence that they did so in modern times. A transcript of the Steep parish registers is available in the West Sussex Record Office. For ecclesiastical purposes South Ambersham was associated with Selham and Easebourne during the last 150 years; and it is worth starting genealogical searches with the registers of these two parishes.

South Ambersham became a civil parish in 1844 when it was transferred from Hampshire to Sussex, and was united with Graffham in 1972