Archives

We will do research at any of the following London archives, libraries, and record offices as part of our standard research.If you require research at any other archives in London, or in different parts of the UK, please contact us and we will try to accommodate you.

British Library www.bl.ukBritish Telecom Archives
  • Telephone directories dating back to 1880

Catholic Central Library www.catholic-library.org.uk

  • Many records pertaining to Catholic family history

City of London Police Record Office www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

  • 1832 onwards

Corporation of London Records Officewww.corpoflondon.gov.uk

  • Currently at LMA

Divorce Registry www.courtservice.gov.uk

Dr. Williams' Library www1.rhbnc.ac.uk/hellenic-institute/Drwilliams's.html

  • Nonconformist records

Fawcett Library www.lgu.ac.uk/fawcett/main.htm

French Protestant Church of London www.egliseprotestantelondres.org/english

Guildhall Library www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

  • Apprenticeship records
  • Boyd's Marriage Index
  • Occupational Listings
  • Old Bailey Session Papers
  • Guild records
  • Trade Directories

HM Land Registry www.landreg.gov.uk

Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Huguenot Library www.huguenot society.org.uk

Imperial War Museum www.iwm.org.uk

Institute of Commonwealth Studies www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research www.history.ac.uk

Irish Genealogical Research Society Library www.igrsoc.org

Jewish Museumwww.ort.org/jewmusm

Lambeth Palace Library www.lambethpalacelibrary.org

Library and Museum of Freemasonry www.freemasonry.london.museum/

London Metropolitan Archives - LMA
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/leisure_heritage/

Metropolitan Police Archives www.met.police.uk/records/history.htm

National Army Museum www.national-army-museum.ac.uk

Post Office Archives and Record Centre www.postalheritage.org.uk

Principal Registry of the Family Division www.courtservice.gov.uk

  • Wills and Grants of Administration from 1858

Religious Society of Friends www.quaker.org.uk/library

Royal Air Force Museum www.rafmuseum.org.uk

Royal College of Physicians Library www.rcplondon.ac.uk

Society of Genealogists www.sog.org.uk

  • British, English, and worldwide genealogy
  • Large collection of genealogical publications, including Family Tree magazine

The National Archives - TNA www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

  • Military Records
  • Criminal Records (including ancestors transported to Australia)
  • Death Duty records
  • Manorial Records
  • Railway Records
  • Divorce Records
  • Ancestors magazine

London Borough Archives

We specialise in records at the following London Archives:

Camden www.camden.gov.uk/localstudies/ - covers Holborn, Hampstead, Highgate and St. Pancras

Hackney http://www.hackney.gov.uk/ca-archives.htm - includes Stoke Newington and Shoreditch

Islington http://www.islington.gov.uk/Education/LocalHistory/localhistorycentre/default.asp & Finsbury Local History Collection - includes Holloway and Clerkenwell