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The records of Saint Mary Magdalen Milk Street, City of London, include parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials) from 1558; vestry minutes from 1561; churchwardens' accounts from 1518; Overseers' books of receipts and payments and poor rate assessments.

Records of the parish of Saint Nicholas Acons, Cannon Street, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry minute books; Churchwardens' accounts and vouchers; drawings of boundary marks of the parishes; Overseers' books of receipts and payments; poor rate, church rate and tithe rate assessments.

Records of the parish of Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; poor rate books and tithe rate assessment books.

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Westcheap, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' accounts; general financial accounts; papers relating to poor relief; poor rate assessments and papers relating to parish properties.

Records of the parish of Saint Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, City of London, including registers of baptisms, burials, marriages and banns; Vestry minutes; papers of the Vestry Clerks; papers of the Churchwardens; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; papers relating to parish poor relief including papers of the Overseers and the workhouse; tithe rate assessment books and poor rate assessment books.

The main archive dates from the 17th century (with parish registers from 1662), but the records also include deeds from 1537. The records of the area of the parish which lay within the City of London are distinct from those of the area which lay within the county of Middlesex. The records of the City of London area of the parish appear first in the catalogue.

Records of the parish of Saint Thomas Apostle, Queen Street, City of London, including muniments of title from 1536; parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials and banns) from 1558; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' accounts; poor rate assessments and property valuations.

Records of the parish of Saint Thomas in the Liberty of the Rolls, City of London, comprising parish registers (baptisms, marriages) 1842-1886 and a volume commemorating the building of the church, 1837-1842.

Records of the church of Saint Michael, Wandsworth Common, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, and church services; Parochial Church Council and Vestry minutes; deeds and papers regarding church buildings and the school site; faculties and other papers relating to church building maintenance; correspondence regarding church redevelopment; papers regarding parish boundaries; papers relating to organisations run by the church including the day centre; financial accounts; booklets and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Mark, Battersea Rise, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and banns of marriage; registers of church services; preacher's book; church account books and cash books; Vestry meeting minutes and Parochial Church Council meeting minutes.

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Battersea, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services; orders of services; papers regarding the maintenance of church buildings; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; parish magazines; historical notes and photographs.

Records of the Parish of Saint Thomas, Southwark, comprising an account book of the Overseers of the Poor, 1739-1775.

Records of the Brondesbury Park Synagogue and its predecessor synagogues, including:

Brondesbury Synagogue (Chevening Road), 1904-1974;

Harlesden Hebrew Congregation / Willesden District Synagogue (College Road), 1933-1939;

Willesden Green Federation Synagogue (Heathfield Park / Brondesbury Park), 1934-1939;

Willesden Synagogue (Brondesbury Park), 1939-1974;

Willesden and Brondesbury Synagogue (Brondesbury Park),1974-2000;

Brondesbury Synagogue (Brondesbury Park), 2000-2007.

Please note the dates refer to the time the Synagogue had that name.

The records include registers of kethubot [marriage contracts]; membership contributions ledgers; membership lists; membership application forms; barmitzvah application forms; Board of Management minute books; Aid Committee minutes; elections for Synagogue officers; Burial Society papers; yahrzeit books; papers relating to high holydays; general correspondence; papers relating to the diamond jubilee of the Synagogue; booklet History of the Willesden and Brondesbury Synagogue, 1934-1994 by Rabbi Bernard Susser; historical research; financial records including account books; printed items such as orders of service, newsletters, tributes and event ephemera; exhibition boards prepared for a display; design for a committee room; drawing of the Chief Rabbi attending the Diamond Jubilee service; and certificates.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Records of the Bayswater Synagogue, consisting of administrative files, financial records, reports, photographs, correspondence, a history of the synagogue and membership records including registers of kethubot [marriage contracts] and chalitzah undertakings.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Records of Cricklewood Synagogue, consisting of minutes, ledgers of membership payments and an admission card.

Material in more recent deposits included Board of Management minute books, committee minutes; administrative papers relating to membership, marriages, finances, officers, elections and the management of the synagogue; income and expenditure account books; cash books; petty cash books; marriage registers; lists and registers of members; newsletters and other printed items; and photographs.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Records of the East London Synagogue, consisting of Board of Management minutes, other administrative records, financial accounts, membership records, marriage contracts and index of social services cases.

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Records of the Finchley Synagogue, consisting of registers of kethubot [marriage contracts] and marriage authorization certificates, issued by the Chief Rabbi.

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Records of Finsbury Park Synagogue, including correspondence; kethubot [marriage certificates]; membership payment registers; memorial book; accounts book; educational pamphlets; certificates; and photographs of Synagogue officers.

Records of Gladstone Park Synagogue, consisting of a minute book.

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Records of the Joel Emmanuel Charity, consisting of a minute book.

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Records of the Jews' Orphan Asylum, consisting of minutes of the Ladies Society and the Education Committee.

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Records of the North London Synagogue, consisting of correspondence and a kethuba register [marriage contracts].

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Records of the New Synagogue, Leadenhall Street, consisting of administrative and financial records, including laws and byelaws, minutes, annual reports, letter books, membership records and photographs; an extensive run of correspondence files, registers of memorials; chalitzah books and registers of kethubot [marriage contracts].

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General records of the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, including letter books; appointment books; statistics; minutes of the Chief Rabbinate Council; minutes, correspondence and proceedings of the Conference of Anglo-Jewish Preachers; papers of the Provincial Jewish Ministers Fund including correspondence, minutes, financial accounts and reports of inspections of Hebrew classes; orders of service for national and royal occasions, synagogue foundations, consecrations, jubilees and anniversaries; funerals and memorials, marriages, Holocaust memorials, and dedications of hospitals and schools; and photographs. ACC/2805/01/110 records the results of the survey into Hebrew Congregations in the British Empire commissioned by Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler soon after he took office.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Records of the West London Synagogue of British Jews, 1840-1973. The archive consists mainly of financial records such as cash books, ledgers, journals, accounts books and financial statements, with two scapbooks containing advertisements, news cuttings, programmes and tickets for special events.

PLEASE NOTE: written permission from the depositors is required to access these records. Contact the Executive Director, West London Synagogue, 35 Seymour Place, London W1H 6AT.

Records of the Jewish Health Organisation of Great Britain, comprising committees, case histories, personnel and general correspondence.

Records of the Court of the Chief Rabbi, London Beth Din, 1904-1988. The bulk of the archive transferred to London Metropolitan Archives are the administrative papers and general correspondence of the Court, and in particular that of the Clerks and Registrar. There are also files concerning consultations the Beth Din undertook with the Government on the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill in the 1980s. Some correspondence and rough notes of the individual Dayanim and records relating to work done with refugees in the Second World War have also been deposited.

Memorandum book of the English Church in Siena, including agreement concerning the Protestant cemetery (1843), abstract of receipts and payments (1841-1846), correspondence and notes.

Costa del Sol Chaplaincy records comprising account books and papers and service registers.

Records of the Dutch Church at Austin Friars, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; financial accounts; letter books; lists of members; council and committee minute books; memoranda books; legal papers; property records including title deeds; rules and regulations relating to the governance of the church.

Records of the Protestant Dissenting Deputies, comprising three series of committee minute books and one secretary's letter book.

Records of the Society of Friends Devonshire House meetings, comprising minutes and financial records only.

Records of the Nightingale Lane Congregational Church, East Smithfield, comprising a meeting book and a list of members only.

Records of the Shacklewell Baptist Church, Stoke Newington, including meeting minutes; register of members; and financial accounts.

Lease by the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Graces beside the Tower of London of a tenement with a yard in Fenchurch Street.

Admission of Thomas Laurens and his wife as lay brother and sister by the Provincial of the Friars Minor in England.

The records comprise transcripts by Frederick Teague Cansick of monumental inscriptions in churchyards and burial grounds in Saint Andrew Holborn, Saint Giles in the Fields, All Hallows Bread Street, All Hallows London Wall, Christchurch Newgate Street, Saint Benet Paul's Wharf, Saint Botolph Aldersgate, Saint Mary Aldermary, Saint Mary Woolnoth, Saint Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, Saint Mary Queenhithe, Saint Sepulchre, Saint James Pentonville Road, All Saints Edmonton and All Hallows Tottenham.

Records of the church of Saint Mary, Hendon, comprising drawing of litany desk.

Register of marriages, 1970.

Papers relating to Old Mahogany Bar Methodist Church, Graces Alley, Wellclose Square, comprising publicity material including annual reports and anniversary programmes, 1929-1956, including pamphlet entitled "Sixty Eight Glorious Years for Christ. The Story of the Old Mahogany Bar (East End Mission)" by the Reverend Lesley E Day, 1956.

Records of Southfields Methodist Church, Wandsworth, 1902-1982, including register of baptisms; register of marriages; Leaders meetings minutes; Church Council minutes and correspondence; Society meetings minutes; minutes of Finance Committee; collection journals; Sunday School minutes and correspondence; youth work minutes and related papers; Sisterhood Committee minutes; correspondence relating to the building; deeds; plans; programmes; newsletters; pulpit notices; press cuttings and photographs.

Records of Ferme Park Baptist Church, 1901-1989, including financial accounts; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; papers relating to the Sunday School; papers relating to church Societies; register and log book of fire watchers, Second World War; copy of history of the church: Not Bricks Alone 1889-1989: 100 Years of Worship and Service, 1989; photographs and papers relating to funds and trusts.

Marriage register of the Salvation Army Citadel, Adelaide Road, Southall, 1982-1985.

Marriage registers for Saint Cuthbert's United Reformed Church, West Norwood, Lambeth, 1979-1987.

Records of North Harrow Methodist Church, comprising Golden Jubilee booklet, 1977; Diamond Jubilee booklet, 1987; letter of thanks from Buckingham Palace for royal Silver Jubilee message, 1977; Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society certificate, 1930?; Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School certificate, 1927 and correspondence regarding Manse Trust, including a copy of the lease, 1939-1948.

Records of South Harrow Methodist Church, 1935-1992, including membership roll; Leader's Meeting minutes; general correspondence; financial accounts; annual reports; papers regarding Trustees; papers regarding the construction of a new building; correspondence regarding staff members; pulpit notice book; Missionary Committee minutes; Women's Committee minutes; Youth Council minutes; Sunday School minutes and registers; Church newsletters and magazines; orders of service, programmes, leaflets and circulars; newspaper cuttings and an audio tape recording of the old organ being played.

Marriage registers for Kingdom Hall, Balvernie Grove, Wandsworth, 1957-1991.

Transcript of the parish registers of Saint John, Smith Square, Westminster, including baptisms 1728-1755, marriages 1728-1754 and burials 1731-1754. Also some notes made by Noble for various publications.

Historical research and notes on the parish of Saint Michael Bassishaw, including extracts from parish records.

Service registers from the Bologna Anglican Chaplaincy, Italy.

Registers of services at the Champery Anglican Chaplaincy, Switzerland.