Tracing your London ancestors : a guide for family historians
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In a series of short chapters Oates describes the principal record offices, archives, libraries and other sources researchers can go to, and shows how Londoners can be tracked through censuses, registers and directories over the last 500 years.
Main title:
Tracing your London ancestors : a guide for family historians / by Jonathan Oates
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Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword, ©2011.
Collation:
183 p. illustrations
Contents:
ch. 1 London: Roman and Medieval LondonEarly Modern LondonVictorian LondonModern Londonch. 2 Lists of Londoners: The CensusDirectoriesTelephone DirectoriesPoll Books and Electoral RegistersThe Middlesex Registry of DeedsOther Listsch. 3 Criminal London: The Courts and CrimePolice RecordsNewspapersPunishmentNon-Criminalsch. 4 Ecclesiastical London: The Church of England (parish registers and bishops' transcripts; other parish records; wills; ecclesiastical courts; miscellaneous church records)Nonconformists and CatholicsNon-Christian Religionsch. 5 Taxing Londoners: RatesHearth TaxTithesThe Ship TaxThe Free and Voluntary GiftWindow TaxGame DutyPoll TaxThe Land TaxIncome TaxMiscellaneous Taxes and DutiesDeath Dutiesch. 6 Educating London: Brief History of EducationSchool RecordsUniversity RecordsPrivate SchoolsThe Inns of Chancery and of CourtThe Apprenticeship Systemch. 7 Social and Cultural London: Leisure PursuitsIll-HealthThe PoorOrphanages and Children's HomesCharitiesch. 8 Business and Working London: The ProfessionsShopkeepersBusiness RecordsLicensed to Kill?The City Livery CompaniesPublic-Sector EmploymentPoliticiansCivil ServantsThe PoliceLondon Transportch. 9 Medieval London: Manor Court RollsTax RecordsCity RecordsRecords Searchable OnlineDeedsSurveysChurch ArchivesCity CompaniesCntemporary Accounts of LondonMiscellaneousch. 10 London Under Attack: Pre-Twentieth CenturyFirst World WarSecond World Warch. 11 London's Incomers: Early ImmigrantsNaturalizationPassenger ListsInternmentNewspapers and PublicationsOral HistoryMilitary RecordsJewish SourcesAsian and Black ImmigrantsPolish ImmigrantsIrishGeneral SourcesSources Overseasch. 12 House History: Local Government RecordsDeedsPrinted Records (Other than Newspapers)NewspapersDirectories, Electoral Registers, Rate Books and Census ReturnsStreet and House NamingMapsValuation Office RecordsPictures and PhotographsDisastersBooksSummaryConclusion graphy London-Wide Institutions County Record Offices Local Authority Archives Museums Family History Societies in and around London Select Bibliography Websites.
ISBN:
9781848841307 (paperback)
Dewey class:
929.1072
Local class:
929.1072
Language:
English
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BRN:
450977
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| Research | History Support Collection | 929.1072TRA | Available |