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London and Middlesex Genealogical Resources
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The purpose of this project is to outline the regional resources available for research in London and Middlesex, both geographical/physical and online.
Please add links to any resources you find in the appropriate sections below.
GENUKI London
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Cyndi's List - London
Cyndi's List - Middlesex
London Roots Research
Resource Centres - Repositories
- London Metropolitan Archives
- TheBritish Library
- City of Westminster Archives Centre
- National Archives, Kew
- Enfield Local Studies Library & Archive
- Society of Genealogists
- London Public Library
- Hackney Archives
- Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre
- Havering Local Studies and Family History Centre
- Barking & Dagenham Archives and Local Studies
- Islington Local History Centre
- Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
- Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre
- Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre
- Lambeth Archives
- Black Cultural Archives
- Newham Local History and Archives
- Southwark Local History Library & Archive
- Uxbridge Local History & Archives
Local Family and Local History Societies
- Acton History Group
- Barns & Mortlake History Society
- Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society
- Docklands History Group
- East London Family History Society
- Hillingdon Family History Society
- Hornsey Historical Society
- Hounslow and District History Society
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
- Lewisham Local History Society
- London Westminster & Middlesex Family History Society
- London Record Society
- London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
- Middlesex Heraldry Society
- Richmond Local History Society
- Borough of Twickenham Local History Society
- West Middlesex Family History Society
Online
Research Guides
- Guide to Areas in Greater London
- London & Middlesex genealogy links
- The London Ancestor
- Jewish Community in London
- Locating London's Past
- Old to New London Street Names A-Z of lost London Street names giving you the name of the street today.
- Hidden London
- The Dictionary of Victorian London
Maps
- London, Five feet to the Mile, 1893-1896 detailed maps of 19th-century London Family historians can now get an accurate picture of the city when their ancestors were alive and explore streets that have long since disappeared.
- East London History Society Map Gallery brilliant resource enabling you to pick a map of either Bethnal Green, Stepney, Bow, Bromley or Poplar in your chosen year and splitting the screen so you can compare to today's maps.
- Historical Maps of London 1862-1871 Maps of all areas of London.
- Greenwood's Map of London 1827 this web site, hosted by Bath Spa University is a wonderful resource. The map has been made interactive, allowing searches by browsing the map of entering a place name. The zoom facility is excellent. You are also given suggestions on where to search the map based on your selection and a list of references and links.
- Maps of Victorian London
- Bethnal Green (1848) map of the parish of Bethnal Green dated 1848.
Historical documents
- London BMD
- Middlesex BMD
- Ancestry.co.uk - London Resources - £ - membership required
- Ancestry.co.uk - Middlesex Resources - £ - membership required
- London Lives 1690 - 1800 A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names
History of London and Middlesex Communities
Places
- Middlesex England Parish Records
- Stepney Union Casebooks 1889-1890 containing detailed case histories of the inmates of Bromley and Stepney workhouses and of people who received outdoor relief from the union.
- Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial BMDs free index to non-parochial registers transcriptions.
- St Martin in the Fields Settlement Examinations Index these records are held by the Westminster Archives who have now made it free to search the settlement examinations of St Martin in the Fields, at the moment dates covered are 1732-1775.
- Gift to Seaman's Widows St George in the East, gift to seaman's widows-1860.
- Match workers strike, Bow 1888
- The Records of London's Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO) a truly fascinating site providing records of Apprentices and Freemen in the City of London Livery Companies between 1400 and 1900. The database contains the details of 60,000 apprenticeship bindings, 40,000 admissions to the freedom, and 270,000 named individuals from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
- London Hackney Coaches of 1662 database of details on people who licensed their Hackney Coach in 1662.
- Liverymen of London 1776 Spitalfields database lists names, trade and address.
- London Merchants of 1677 A-Z searchable database giving first and last name, address and occupation.
- London Inhabitants Within the Walls 1695
- Local London Newspapers links to local London Borough newspapers available online.
- Historic Hospital Admission Records the home of 19th century children’s hospital records. Databases available for three London hospitals: the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, the Evelina Hospital and the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease. It provides access to nearly 120,000 individual admission records between 1852 and 1914. Children from outside London were also sent to these hospitals for treatment.
- The Bow Creek School Pupil Admission Register 1896-1935 The Bow Creek School Pupil Admission Register.
- Railwaymen & Women of The North London Railway
- Historic Tottenham
- Camden New Town Website
Some links to help Stepney researches
[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol11/pp1-7]
[https://www.google.com/amp/s/hidden-london.com/gazetteer/stepney/amp/]
[https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Stepney]
[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Stepney_St_Dunstan,_Middlesex_]...
[https://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-early-history-of-east-lond.]..
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7GC1URsSqGA]
Parish Registers
- All Hallows' Marriages 1558-1837. All Hallows' church is in Tottenham, North London. It is one of the oldest buildings in the London Borough of Haringey. As Tottenham was seen as a very fashionable place to get married you will find many entries for people who were not residents of this area.
- St Leonard Shoreditch Baptisms 1558-1640
- Registers of St Marylebone Marriages 1668-1812
- Parish of St George Hanover Square Register Book of Marriages 1725-1787 1788-1809 1810-1823 1824-1837
- Middlesex Parish Records 1563-1895
- Middlesex Parish Registers of Marriages includes:- New Brentford 1618-1812, Hounslow 1708-1812, Stanwell 1632-1812, Sunbury 1566-1812, Ashford 1696-1812, Feltham 1634-1812, Hanworth 1732-1837, Pinner 1654-1837
- Bethnal Green Congregational Church Baptism Register 1860 - 1945
- The Registers of Christenings, Marriages and Burials at Kensington 1539-1675
- The Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields 1550-1619
- The Registers of Baptisms and Marriages at St. George's Chapel, May Fair 1889
- Marriage Registers of St Dunstan's Stepney 1640-1696
- The registers of St.Vedast, Foster Lane and of St. Michael le Quern, London 1559-1836
- The registers of St. Olave, Hart street, London 1563-1700
- The parish registers of St. Mary Aldermarry, London 1558-1754
- The Parish Registers of St Margaret's Church Westminster 1539-1660
- Marriages at St James', Duke's Place 1684-1690
Historical Resources
...online publications
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