Having read up on West Grinstead, I am now wondering if the Bateups were Catholic.
On another thread on here I found reference to the [/b]Margaret Higgins database of Catholics in England [/b]and on there is listed for 1727, a Tho Bateops (Batrops) of West Grinstead.
Were they on 1767 Return of Papists or a list of Catholic nonjurors & Register of Papists' estates 1715?
Editions of the 1715 Catholic & nonjurors lists, arranged by county, are online on Internet Archive. There's a basic list with financial accounts. Also "English Catholic Nonjurors 1715 - Summary of Register of Papists' Estates" edited by Edgar Estcourt & John Orblear Payne, published by Burns & Oates, publisher of Catholics Record Society journals. The latter book includes biographical information for some entries.
Neither 1715 nor 1767 lists include every Catholic. Only 2 branches of my Catholic ancestors were represented on 1715 list. My other R.C. ancestors in the same parishes must have been beneath notice. 1767 Return was correct for my family's parish but the Anglican curate of an adjacent parish admitted to only 1 Catholic in the parish - he wasn't looking hard enough.