More than 77 million historical records from the greater London area are being digitized and published online due to a partnership between the London Metropolitan Archives and Ancestry.co.uk. The first 250,000 of those records went online this past Thursday, and include primarily parish records of baptisms and burials covering 12 major London regions: Poplar, Paddington, St Marylebone, St Pancras, Southwark, Islington, Stepney, Westminster, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Holborn and Hampstead. Details about Victorian workhouses from Board of Guardians records are also included in this release, covering 12 areas and listing anyone who was born, baptised or died in a London workhouse in the 19th and early 20th century.
Among the celebrities found in the collection is the great-great-great-grandfather of Harry Potter author, J. K. Rowling. The marriage of William Richard Rowling to Frances Emily Andrews on 23 December 1872 is found in the marriage registers of All Saints parish in Miles End. Other records of notable Londoners to watch out for include Oliver Cromwell's marriage record, the baptism record for poet Samuel Pepys, and the burial register for writer and statesman John Milton.
The London Historical Records collection is available online to UK and World subscribers.
It’s excellent that so many records are digitized and made publicly available to us all.. I was looking for an online repository of some of the records here in England, and wondered if there’s an electronic record of all the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registrars in the country yet? If there is, please could you let me know?
Thanks!
Kind regards
Farhan