Indexes to, and digital images of, the records held by London Metropolitan Archives have started to appear online at Ancestry.
The whole collection spans over 400 years from the 1500s to the 1900s and covers parish baptism and marriage registers, burial registers, Bishops' Transcripts, Non-conformist baptisms, marriages and burials, poor law Board of Guardians records, school admissions and discharge registers, electoral registers and poll books, land tax documents, Surrey marriage bonds and allegations, wills, transportation records from the Middlesex Sessions of the Peace, Diocesan marriage bonds and allegations, Diocesan divorce exhibita and City of London Freedoms. The full collection is due to appear gradually over the next year.
At the moment the online data covers the poor law Board of Guardians Births and Baptisms 1834-1934 and the poor law Board of Guardians Deaths and Burials collection 1834-1906. The London boroughs covered are:
Camden
Islington
Lambeth
Southwark
Tower Hamlets
Wandsworth
Westminster
You will need either a premium or worldwide subscription to view the data.
See the full details at http://landing.ancestry.co.uk/lma/london.aspx
Sheena
www.setait.co.uk
Friday 27 March 2009
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