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Family History Sites for London
General
Archives/Record Offices
- London Lives 1690 - 1820 *New* Search 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names
- Search the archives Advanced search of The National Archives
- Naturalisation and citizenship: grants of British nationality
- Inner Temple admission registers 1547-1850
- Royal Engineers Museum Archives
- The Finchley Society
Archive of old photographs (including more than 1,500 postcards), maps, press cuttings, old letters and artifacts in the basement at Avenue House
- Metropolitan And City Police Orphans Fund Research Archive Records contain the names and details of the children admitted to the orphanage
- The Foresters Heritage Trust website collection of Foresters central, District, Federation, Region and Court primary source documents
- Archive Hub
Describes the archives held in UK universities/colleges
- London Metropolitan Archives
- Coroners' Records London and Middlesex A Guide [PDF file]
- BBC Archives
from the last 70 years
- The Royal Mail Archive
Did your ancestors work for the Post Office?
- Royal Mail War Memorials Database & London War Memorials
- British Telecommunications Archives
early part of the nineteenth century up to the present day
- India Office Records
archives of the administration in London of the pre-1947 government of India, including the East India Company
- Lambeth Archives
- West Sussex Record Office
- Westminster Diocesan Archives
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Births, Marriages, Deaths
- Births, Marriages, Death Certificates
- FreeBMD - transcribing the Civil Registration index
of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales
- For records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial
taken from non parish sources
- Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames -
search Burial Records
- Births, marriages and deaths Guide
- The City of London Cemetery
has a record of every burial that has taken place since its opening in 1856 - Search the Burial Registers online 24 June 1856 to 2 June 1861 only
- Overseas
A Guide to Births, Marriages and Deaths Overseas
- Newspaper BMD's
Transcripts from 1830 & 1831
- London Generations
Database of the major City of London family history sources
- Barnet:
Parish Registers - Births, Deaths and Marriages
- Barking & Dagenham
Registration Service
- Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery
Memorial Inscriptions
- Greenwich cemeteries
five cemeteries in Greenwich, and records are kept for burials that have taken place at all of them
- Lewisham Cemetery records
The records of the specified cemeteries are held at Lewisham Crematorium, Verdant Lane, SE6
- Hampstead Baptisms 1737-1761
- Find-a-Grave
Find A Grave is a resource for finding the final resting place of family, friends, and 'famous' individuals.
- Kent: Medway Ancestors
Medway Council's project to publish images of the original parish registers in its custody
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Blogs
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Boroughs
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Cemeteries
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Census
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Churches
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Crime & Punishment
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Directories
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Fashion
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Family History Societies - London & Home Counties
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Heraldry
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History
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Houses
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Jewish
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Libraries
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Magazines/Journals
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Maps
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Medical
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Military
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Army Records Society
publishing manuscripts relating to the history of the British Army
- Researching a soldier's military career
- The British Army of 1914-1918
for family historians
- Stockwell War Memorial Exploring Stockwell's First World War heritage
- Military Genealogy
website for military historians and family genealogists
- The Victoria Cross
Britain's Highest Award for Gallantry
- World War One Medal Index Cards
The cards record an individual's medal entitlement, their rank(s), or unit(s) and the first theatre of war they served in - 5,500,000 entries
- WWI Cemeteries
A site of remembrance and comprehensive guide to the military cemeteries and memorials of Belgium, France, Great Britain
- British and Commonwealth War Memorials and War Graves
These pages commemorate those British and Commonwealth service personnel who laid down their lives for their countries
- National Maritime Museum Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
- The Royal British Legion
Caring for the serving and ex-Service community
- Corps of Royal Engineers Archives
houses an archive which consists of a wide range of documents including: letters, photographs, diaries, manuals, maps, personal documents, Corps Journals and some unit histories
- British Medals
The purpose of the site is to display medals from several collections
- Imperial War Museum London
- British Cemeteries and Memorials Index
- Military Badges & Images
- Canadian War Brides
The story of the Canadian war brides and their journey to Canada
- Service Personnel and Veterans Agency
Ministry of Defence
- Naval Biographical Database
People, Places, Ships, Organisations and Events associated with the Royal Navy since 1660
- Roll of Officers
of the British American or Loyalist Corps
- Loyalist Regiments for British and Loyalist troops
during the American Revolution
- British, German, and Loyalist Officers
in the American Revolution 1755-1782
- The Mary Rose [Portsmouth]
the only 16th century warship on display anywhere in the world.
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Museums
- Bank of England
A wide-ranging collection of books and documents, both handwritten and printed, dating from the inception of the Bank in 1694 - see archives
- Barnet Museum
31 Wood Street, Barnet, Herts, EN5 4BE
- Britain at War Experience
The Britain at War Experience recreates the London Blitz in all its fury with special effects highlighting
- The British Museum
The origins of the British Museum lie in the will of the physician, naturalist and collector, Sir Hans Sloane
- Museum of Childhood
aims to encourage everyone to explore the themes of childhood past and present. Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA
- The Clink Prision
near London Bridge / Tooley Street
- The Courtauld Gallery
holds an outstanding collection of drawings and prints and fine example of sculpture and decorative arts
- Geffrye Museum
136 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London E2 8EA. The changing style of the English domestic interior from 1600 to the present day
- Church Farmhouse Museum Hendon
a Grade 2 listed building dating from the mid-seventeenth century
- Charles Dickens Museum
The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the world's most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator
- Horniman Museum
Specimens and artefacts from around the World collected from the 1860's and exhibited in Forest Hill
- Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
- The Jewish Museum
Jewish history in Britain until 1800 after 1800
- The London Jewish Museum of Art
The London Jewish Museum of Art is Europe's only dedicated Jewish Museum of Art working in partnership with both secular and Jewish Museums in the UK
- London Transport Museum
An exhibition of illustrations depicting life in London, opens at London Transport Museum on 18 May
- Museum of London - Smaller Communities in London
150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN
- Museum of London Docklands
No.1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London E14 4AL
- National Maritime Museum Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF Tel: +44 (0)20 8858 4422
to illustrate for everyone the importance of the sea, ships, time and the stars and their relationship with people.
- The National Portrait Gallery
was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women
- National Media Museum
Bradford, BD1 1NQ
- Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
- Pollocks Toy Museum
1 Scala Street, London W1T 2HL
- The Royal Armouries
is located in the White Tower in the Tower of London
- Sir John Soane's Museum
Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art
- Science & Society Picture Library
Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD. Over 50,000 images digitised from the Science Museum, the National Media Museum and the National Railway Museum.
- The Sherlock Holmes Museum
At 221b Baker Street London NW1 6XE - Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John H. Watson
- Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
- The Wallace Collection
is a national museum in an historic London town house
- Wandsworth Museum
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Newspapers
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Occupations
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Parishes
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Passenger Lists
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Photography - Prints - Images
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Prices/Wages
- Wage Rates 1264 - 1980
of Building Craftsmen and Labourers, Agricultural Labourers, average Yearly Wages paid to Domestics etc.
- Prices of Provisions and Labour
parliamentary table showing the contract prices of provisions, wages of labour, &c. at the Greenwich Hospital from 1729 to 1818
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Prisons
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Professional Genealogists
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Record Offices
See Archives
Register Offices
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Schools
- The National Society
200 Years of Supporting Christian Education - the archive contains over 15,000 files of correspondence concerning individual schools
- Westminster Schools
Historical Notes (PDF file size 500K)
- Industrial Schools
information on Industrial/Reformatory Schools and the like in England and Wales during the 19th and early 20th century
- Bluecoat Schools
Records of Christ's Hospital and Bluecoat Schools at Guildhall Library
- Harrow Schoolboys
Index to 30,000 negatives by Hills & Saunders, Photographers, 1870 - 1970
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Street Indexes, Name Changes
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Transport
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Wills
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