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Records of the parish of Saint James, Hampstead Road, St Pancras, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and banns; and registers of church services.

Records of the parish of Saint Luke, Oseney Crescent, Kentish Town, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; papers relating to the benefice; faculties, citations, architect's reports, plans and correspondence relating to the maintenance of the church fabric; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; papers of church societies and parish magazines.

Papers of the church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Eversholt Street, Somers Town, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; minutes of the Parochial Church Council; papers of the St Pancras Housing Society; and parish magazines.

Records of Saint Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, including registers of baptisms and marriages; registers of church services; orders of service; papers relating to parish boundaries and the benefice; photographs of the church; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; histories; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Regent Square, including registes of baptisms and marriages; curate's licences; papers relating to parish properties; financial records; papers relating to the maintenance of the church fabric; parish magazines and papers relating to the parish school.

Records of the parish of All Saints, Haggerston, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; registers of church services; registers of banns; faculties and other papers relating to the church fabric; financial accounts; Parochial Church Council minute books; electoral rolls; papers relating to the parish school; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Hoxton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns, church services and preachers; papers relating to the benefice; faculties and plans for alterations to the church fabric; financial accounts; and Easter Vestry and Church Meeting minute book.

Records of the parish of Saint Bartholomew, Dalston Lane, Dalston, comprising registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; registers of banns; register of confirmations; registers of church services; and a preachers' book.

Records of the parish of Saint John the Baptist, New North Road, Hoxton, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwardens' financial accounts; registers of church services and preachers; photographs and prints.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Britannia Walk, Hoxton, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; and parish magazine.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Broke Road, Haggerston, including registers of baptisms and marriages; church services registers; Parochial Church Council minutes and electoral roll.

Records of the parish of Saint Agnes, Kennington Park, Southwark, including registers of baptisms and marriages; church services registers; financial records; Parochial Church Council minutes; records of the Guild of the Ascension and the Burial Guild; parish magazines.

Records relating to the parish of Saint Paul, Westminster Bridge Road, Southwark, including registers of baptisms, marriages and church services.

Records of the Pembroke College Mission, Barlow Street, Walworth, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; church services registers; and minutes of the Parochial Church Council and other committees.

Records of the church of Saint Peter, Sumner Street, Southwark, comprising registers of baptisms and marriages.

Records of the parish of Saint Stephen, Manciple Street, Southwark, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; Parochial Church Council minutes; records relating to the parish National School; and administrative records.

Records of the parish of Saint Augustine, Settle Street, Stepney, comprising registers of baptisms and register of marriages.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Commercial Street, Spitalfields, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; preachers' books; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; legal documents (such as deeds, leases and conveyances) relating to parish property; papers relating to the maintenance of the church fabric; records relating to church personnel; correspondence and working papers of the incumbents; records of the parish school and parish charities; papers relating to parish boundaries and the benefice; parish newsletters and printed items. Also papers of the Overseers of the Poor.

The collection includes a large amount of material relating to the restoration of the church building by the Friends of Christ Church, including minutes, administrative papers, plans and reports; and a set of papers relating to the work of the Spitalfields Crypt Trust including minutes, press cuttings and photographs.

Records of the parish of Saint Jude, Commercial Street, Whitechapel, including registers of baptisms and marriages; faculties and architect's reports relating to work on the church; and mortgages.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Whitechapel High Street, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; administrative and financial records; papers relating to parish charities and poor relief; tithe collectors' books; sections and elevations of the church building.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Cable Street, Stepney, including registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; church services registers; financial accounts; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minute books.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Bow Common, including registers of baptisms, marriages and church services.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, The Highway, Shadwell; including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; church services registers; administrative papers and correspondence; citations and faculties; and admission and discharge registers for Shadwell Workhouse.

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Cephas Street, Mile End Old Town, including registers of baptisms and marriages; photographs; and a register of church services.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Morgan Street, Mile End Old Town, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services and minutes of the Parochial Church Council.

Records of the parish of Saint Olave, Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, comprising register of baptisms; registers of marriages; register of confirmations and register of banns.

Records of the parish of All Saints, Brudenell Road, Tooting Graveney, comprising plans and drawings of a proposed new church, vicarage and parish hall.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Garratt Lane, Earlsfield, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; church services registers; orders of service; papers relating to the consecration of the church; papers relating to parish boundaries, the benefice and glebe lands; papers relating to the construction of the church and faculties; minutes of the Vestry, Parochial Church Council and Advisory Church Council; minutes of church societies and clubs; parish magazines; notes on parish history.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Guildersfield Road, Lower Streatham, including registers of baptisms and marriages; preachers' books; church services registers; minutes of the Committee for building a new church in Lower Streatham; financial records; plans of the church; photographs; parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint John the Evangelist, Clapham Road, Clapham, including registers of baptisms and marriages; administrative papers; Churchwardens' vouchers; financial records; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint James, Park Hill, Clapham Park, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; registers of church services and preachers; orders of service; faculties and other papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; financial accounts; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Young Men's Society minutes; parish magazines; and sermons.

Records of the parish of Saint Margaret, Putney Park Lane, Putney, including registers of baptisms, marriages, and banns; church services registers; papers relating to construction and maintenance works at the church and church hall; financial records; Parochial Church Council minutes, orders and correspondence; electoral rolls and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; papers relating to the maintenance of the church; papers relating to the vicarage; financial records; and papers relating to parish societies.

Churchwarden's financial accounts for the church of Saint Clement Danes, Strand, Westminster.

Records of the parish of Saint John, Wellington Street, Woolwich, including registers of baptisms and marriages; Parochial Church Council minutes; and administrative papers.

Records of the parish of Saint Michael and All Angels, Borgard Road, Woolwich, comprising registers of baptisms and marriages.

Records of the parish of Saint Margaret, Vicarage Road, Plumstead, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; altered apportionments of tithe rent charges; certificates of redemption of tithe rent charges; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; and papers relating to parish charities.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalene, Church Street, Woolwich, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' accounts; Overseers' accounts; registers of church services; financial records; papers of parish charities; Parochial Church Council minutes; parish magazines; and scrapbooks.

Registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials for the parish of Saint Nicholas, High Street, Plumstead.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Hector Street, Plumstead, including registers of baptisms and marriages; registers of church services; and minutes of the Vestry and Parochial Church Council.

Registers of baptisms for the Royal Arsenal and Dockyard Chapel, Woolwich.

Records of the parish of Saint Thomas, Maryon Road, Charlton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; papers of church societies; papers relating to parish boundaries; faculties; and papers relating to parish schools.

Records enrolled or filed with the Clerk of the Westminster Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1552-1885. The records classified as WR/A are concerned with the registration of foreigners; WR/B are records produced by Building Surveyors; WR/F are returns of those eligible to serve on juries; WR/L/P covers the licensing of printing presses; WR/LV relate to Licensed Victuallers; WR/ML are concerned with Militia and Lieutenancy; WR/O are Oaths of Office; WR/P are papers concerning Parliamentary Elections; WR/PLT Land Tax; WR/R contains the records produced from the control and recording of all non-conformists; WR/S contains records concerned with Societies; and WR/U records deposited with the court concerning Public Undertakings.

Note on the Quarter Sessions records: Although Westminster has fewer surviving records than Middlesex, the City's sessions would have produced similar records to those of the County, but they would have been smaller in quantity, and have included less administrative material. Also, as with all Quarter Sessions records, "seeing that the Custos Rotulorum was a private gentleman or nobleman and the Clerk of the Peace an attorney with a private practice it is likely that many county records were (if not lost or destroyed) handed down to their families or their professional successors" and many may still remain to be found in private hands (Emmison and Gray, County Records, 1987). Those records that have survived are often difficult to read or understand because of the handwriting, use of Latin (until 1733), or legal jargon and abbreviations; although standardised legal formats were used and printed pro formas introduced by the nineteenth century.

For the Middlesex and Westminster records there may also be confusion over the records' arrangement resulting from the attempts at classification by previous generations of archivists which have left many records split up into unnatural groupings. Originally they would not have been sorted into any cohesive arrangement. These were records that were "kept for administrative convenience rather than as sources for future generations" (G. Jones, Quarter Sessions records in the Leicestershire Record Office).

Because of this overlapping between many classes of record, any study of the Westminster records should include consultation of those for Middlesex. There was in any case a lot of co-operation between the two courts during the period covered by the records. Judicial (Gaol Delivery Sessions for example) and administrative functions were shared, as were court personnel (including justices). Westminster prisoners could elect to be tried at the Middlesex sessions, as these were held more frequently than their own.

The sessions records are a very useful source for family history, studying trends in law and order, and the life of the City and its inhabitants over a relatively long period of time. The capital was an area with high levels of crime, the natural place for riot and conspiracy, and attracted a wide variety of people from the whole country and abroad. The main record of proceedings at the sessions will be found in the sessions rolls (MJ/SR and the uncatalogued WJ/SR - index in WJ/CB); the (partially uncatalogued) sessions books (WJ/SB, MJ/SB); and the (partially uncatalogued) sessions papers (WJ/SP, MJ/SP). City administrative work is in the records of the County Day sessions (WJ/O), and for one particular type, in the records of the street surveyors (WJ/SS). Records of judicial procedure are in the records of court fines (WJ/E), writs to summon juries (WJ/W), and the trial process (WJ/Y); Lists of prisoners made at various times during the trial process are in WJ/CC and WJ/CP.

Records of the Greenwich Poor Law Union, 1836-1946, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians; reports and minutes of various Committees; orders of government departments; correspondence with government departments; orders of removal to and from the Union; medical relief registers; registers of lunatics; lunatic reception orders; register of emigration; registers for the Hospital and Infirmary on Vanburgh Hill; registers for the Woolwich Road Workhouse (later the Woolwich Institution), the Grove Park Workhouse and the Plumstead Workhouse; registers of baptisms in Saint Alfege's Hospital; registers of apprentices; registers of children at South Metropolitan School District schools; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of the Bishopsgate Ward, Corporation of London. The records include wardmote and committee minutes, accounts and tax assessments. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Records of the Candlewick Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise wardmote minutes, accounts, rate assessments, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Records of Castle Baynard Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise wardmote and committee minutes and financial accounts. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Records of Dowgate Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise wardmote minutes, rate assessments and accounts, and petitions. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library at various dates.

Records of Tower Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes and accounts, rate assessments, wardmote papers and other administrative and legal papers, and papers of the benevolent fund. The records were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Two receipts signed by the deputies of the wards of Bridge and Candlewick for money received towards providing for the poor and list of jurors (inquest men) for the wards of Farringdon Within and Langbourn.