This virtual book CD resource contains a bundle of Pigot's 1823 Directories; carrying local listings of professions, nobility, gentry, and clergy, of transport and freight services; and information on the education, public services, and public houses of the area. Towns, villages and parishes are listed with background historical and topographical information. A comprehensive resource which gives you valuable insight into the history of London and the Home counties, and enables you to find out wh More Info
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Volume I - St Botolph Aldgate abstracted and indexed by Cliff Webb, who writes in the introduction: "St Botolph Aldgate is a large but poor parish with a highly transient population. There are only a few Huguenots in the records but quite a few Jewish people, Irish, Scots and other early immigrants. For civil purposes St Botolph was divided into two parts, each with separate civil jurisdiction. Th...More Info
AN INDEX OF BURIALS IN LONDON & MIDDLESEX, covering 52 parishes. Nearly 58,000 burials (NOT INCLUDED IN THE National Burial Index) .Parishes, dates and number of records as follows: Ashford 1700 –06/7, 1760 –1870 (666); Christ Church Greyfriars, (City) 1639-39/40 (98); Clerkenwell: St Barnabas, 1842-54 (82); Clerkenwell: St Thomas Charterhouse 1846-54 (472); Cowley 1562–1876 (1617); Cranford...More Info
CD 46 City of London Burials 1400-1812 - Over 118,500 burials in 52 City Parishes - transcribed by Cliff Webb, plus many volunteers worldwide, indexed and prepared for publishing by Chris Willis and Rosemary Cleaver, September 2017. All Hallows Bread Street: 1538-1755. All Hallows Honey Lane: 1538-1667. All Hallows Lombard Street: 1550-1653. All Hallows Staining: 1653-1710. All Hallows The Gre...More Info
By Maureen Specht. Fully revised 2nd edition (1997). This A4-size illustrated book sets out the history of the German Hospital in Dalston, Hackney, in central London, which was founded by the German Community to provide medical care to the expanding German-speaking population. It also tells about the German community in England and why so many chose to live there. 72 pages (A4) with many illustrat...More Info
Historian and archaeologist Jennie Lee Cobban explores the occult mysteries of the Barnet area, delves into its hidden history and brings to life some of the bizarre characters who have lived in this most surprising of London suburbs.