Online Parish Clerks (OPC) for East & West Sussex

Welcome to the new improved Sussex OPC site - don't just visit, be part of it!

An Online Parish Clerk (OPC) researches all the available historical data they can find on a parish, and transcribes records.  They may also offer a look up service in response to an email or postal request.

In order to promote further private research, information is made FREELY available to any researcher. This will include census returns, Church register transcripts, bishop's transcripts, churchwardens accounts, overseers accounts, land tax records, postal directory extracts, church & village histories, in fact anything our volunteers can find which other researchers may find interesting.  The OPC scheme encourages people to make transcriptions available on this website, but this is not a pre-requisite to being an OPC.  Offering a look up service is an alternative approach as is publishing the information on an OPC's own website or elsewhere.

The combined counties of East and West Sussex contain some 324 (pre 1894) parishes and comprise a very large geographical area. The Sussex OPC project still needs the efforts of many people to make it a success.

If you would be interested in helping make these vital records available, please click one of the buttons on the left for more information or to volunteer - the more help we get the faster the information will be available to all!

This site will only be as good as the contributions received from you!  Please help make the site a success by contributing your transcriptions - records, wills or any other information relevant to Sussex parishes.

(An OPC is a volunteer and should not be confused with the civil Parish Clerk appointed by a Parish Council).

The Sussex OPC Project is encouraged by the Sussex Family History Group