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Volume containing entries of burials, roll of members and Confession of Faith, 1821-1894.

Records of Yiewsley Methodist Church including marriage registers, 1932-1947; baptism register, 1914-1961; Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1891-1972; Trustees' papers and correspondence, 1937-1973; Trustees' Treasurer's Accounts, 1876-1908 and 1951-1980; Leaders' meetings minutes, 1930-1970; Finance Committee minutes, 1965-1969; collection journals, 1894-1903 and 1927-1946; pulpit notices, 1914-1948; Young Disciples' Roll, 1954 and 1961; and order of service programmes and leaflets, 1927-1977.

Records of Wycliffe Congregational Church, Stepney, including register of baptisms, 1850-1899; volume containing minutes of Church meetings, register of collections, register of marriages and register of baptisms, 1873-1906; volume containing minutes of deacons meetings, minutes of Church meetings and minutes of Organ Committee, 1849-1877; volume containing minutes of deacons' meetings and minutes of Church meetings, 1877-1888; volume containing minutes of deacons' meetings, Sunday School meetings and minutes of Church meetings 1889-1896; minutes of Church meetings, 1895-1906; minutes of deacons' meetings, 1896-1905; volume containing minutes of deacons' meetings and minutes of special meeting of deacons with representatives of Wycliffe Congregational Church, Ilford, 1905-1907; annual report of Church activities, 1901; rolls of Church members, 1827-1891; financial accounts, 1848-1907; minutes of Wycliffe Chapel Restoration Fund, 1873, with catalogue of sale of fancy articles in aid of Restoration Fund; minutes of committee of Wycliffe Christian Association, 1893-1902; minutes of meetings of teachers of Girls' Sunday School and Sunday School Excursion Sub-Committee, 1849-1868; minutes of meetings of teachers of Boys' Sunday School, 1843-1849; minutes of meetings of teachers of Sunday Schools, 1849-1907; register of burials in Wycliffe Chapel Burial Ground, 1831-1902, with index of graves in Wycliffe Chapel Burial Ground and list of charges.

Marriage registers for Woodford Congregational Church, George Lane, 1934-1981.

Marriage registers for Wood Green Congregational Church, Lordship Lane, 1912-1940.

Minutes of Church Meetings, 1861-1963; minutes of Church Committee, later called Deacon's meeting, 1873-1963; membership roll, 1866-1870; counterfoils of marriage certificates, 1924-1940; documents relating to Church property, 1856-1914; handbill advertising meeting to be held on 18 Aug 1861 in the [small school] rooms "to unite together those friends willing to devote themselves to the establishment of a permanent Religious [Cause] for Protestant Nonconformists at Wood Green, [suited to] the increasing of the village", 1861.

Court of Session minute book for Windsor Presbyterian Church, 1853-1855.

Records of Winchmore Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1884-1981, including minutes of the Trustees, Finance Committee, Church Choir, Overseas Committee and Sunday School; original building tender for the new church; correspondence relating to the maintenance of the building; church accounts; Seat Rent; Collection Journals; plans and specifications for rebuilding and later developments; orders of service; Year books and magazines; a history of Winchmore Hill Church; Sunday school certificates all awarded to Gladys May Howard for scripture and religious knowledge and 3 Sunday school attendance medals.

Wilson Street Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel financial account book, 1850-1872.

Papers of William Samuel Williams, 1934, comprising a copy of his book The Case for the Lay Ministry of the Church of England: readers, evangelists and parish clerks, etc (Parrett & Neves, Chatham, 1934); papers originally enclosed in the book, 1934, comprising reviews from the Church Times, copy memoranda from Williams and others relating to the office of Reader, papers and correspondence relating to the Church Assembly Lay Readers Group.

Records of Willesden Presbyterian Church, later Saint Margaret Presbyterian Church, comprising Deacons' Court minute book, 1910-1922 and annual reports, 1883-1927.

Registers of marriages, 1929-1939.

Registers of marriages, 1927-1960.

Register of marriages, 1884-1916; volume containing historical account of Church, minutes of Church meetings and index of Church members, 1815-1882; minutes of Church meetings, 1883-1914 and financial accounts, 1882-1916.

Schedule of trust property, 1957-1962; schedule of trust property, amalgamated with Kilburn and Hampstead Circuit, 1962. Also Women's Work minute book, 1955-1962; list of speakers, 1961 and Women's Work officers, 1962.

Notes from sermons of Revd John Bower Wilcox, taken by Elsie Harding at Moorsholm Church, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, [1974], including 'The Church Year' and 'Saints and subjects'.

Records of the Whitefields Chapel, Tottenham Court Road, 1790-1939, including registers of burials, service sheets, index of speakers, financial accounts, Council and Finance Committee agenda and minutes, magazines, notices and calendars of activities, correspondence relating to financial, management and organisational arrangements and inventories.

Records include registers of baptisms, 1805-1879 and 1930-1974; registers of marriages, 1866-1882 and 1936-1965; registers of burials, 1756-1845 and 1945-1965; roll of members, 1865-1879; minute books; attendance registers; abstract of title to Burial Ground; visitors' books; 'Signal' magazines; leaflets and newsletters; historical articles; reports and correspondence.

Marriage register for Whitefield Memorial Church and Toplady Hall, Tottenham Court Road, 1943.

Interment order book for the Whitechapel Quaker Burial Ground, 1777-1781, comprising printed orders to the gravemaker, annotated with the name, address, age, date and cause of death, monthly meeting membership and date of burial of the deceased.

Records of the Whitechapel Methodist Mission, 1876-1978, comprising records of the Whitechapel Station (Circuit), 1897-1975, including quarterly meetings and accounts (Section A); records of the central administration of the social work of the Mission, 1893-1978, including records of the Trustees, Executive Committee, financial records and staff records (Section B); records of the Working Lad's Institute, 1897-1975, including records from before its take over by the Reverend Jackson in 1897, and of its later developments, Whitechapel House Tulse Hill and Whitechapel House Maple Place, including photographs (Section C); records of Brunswick Hall and the Night Shelter, 1900-1970, including some accounts of life as a homeless person in 1926 (Section D); records of the holiday homes, Southend, 1901-1954 (Section E); records of Windyridge Hostel, 1925-1977 (Section F) and records of other stations brought by Revd Jackson to Whitechapel, 1876-1974 (Section G).

Minutes of Committee Meetings, 1877-1891 and Log Book for the Boys' School, 1863-1890.

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 West London Mission, 1888-1988, including minute books from Staff meetings, Finance Committee meetings, Foreign Missionary Committee meetings, Local Preacher's meetings, Women's Work Committee meetings and Sunday School Committee meetings; financial accounts; general correspondence; annual reports of the West London Mission; annual reports of the Social and Redemptive Work amongst Women and Girls; annual reports of the West London Rehabilitation Centre for Alcoholics; publication Portraits and Pictures of the West London Mission (1893); newsletters and magazines; advertisements and appeals; photographs.

Also Kingsway Hall Trust lettings ledger; Kingsway Hall collection journal and Kingsway Hall Creche Committee papers and promotional brochures.

Marriage registers for West Kensington Congregational Church, 1959-1973.

Records of West Hampstead Congregational Church including register of baptisms and marriages, 1907-1939; roll of members, 1894-1933; register of applications for 'Fellowship', 1896-1904; minute book of Church meetings, 1894-1913; minute book of General Purposes Committee, 1906-1911; minutes of Joint Committee of Lyndhurst Road and West Hampstead Churches, 1911-1915; minute book of Joint Committee, known from April 1918 as 'the Committee' and from August 1919 as 'Meeting of Church Officers', 1915-1923; financial accounts, 1896-1934; printed programme of 'special events' and regular weekly meetings, 1923-1924; Church engagements and notices, 1937; certificate of enrollment of West Hampstead as member of League of Nations Union, 1938; drawing of detail of organ front, 1895 and plan of seating.

Local Preachers' meeting minute book, 1950-1962.

Register of marriages, 1961.

Register of marriages for West Ealing Congregational Church, 1970-1972.

Records of West Ealing Congregational Church including combined register listing baptisms, 1910-1969, marriages, 1910-1970 and burials, 1937-1968; minute book for Annual Church Meetings, 1942-1962; minute book for Church Meetings, 1915-1924; minute books for Deacon's Meetings, 1901-1959; roll of Church members, 1914-1972 and Finance Committee minute book, 1936-1968.

Records of West Dulwich Congregational Chapel including register of marriages, 1939-1941; lists of members and registers of attendance, 1853-1939; forms of commendation and applications for transfer, 1930-1944; minute book of Church meetings, 1868-1930; minute book of Deacons' meetings, 1868-1935; minute book of Chapel Building Improvement Committee, 1870; correspondence relating to administrative and social matters,1856-1892; financial accounts, 1854-1945; papers relating to property owned by the church, 1855-1856; ground plan of chapel, 1863; papers relating to Trustees, 1855-1889; certificate registering Dulwich Chapel, Park Road, Lower Norwood as a Congregationalist or Independents' place of worship for solemnization of marriages, 1859; minutes of Literary Society and Committee meetings, 1895 - 1908; Musical Committee minute book, 1899-1904 and printed circular letter raising funds for alterations to church, with sketch of proposed alterations, 1938.

Registers of marriage for West Croydon Congregational Church, 1920-1980.

Records, 1744-1976, documenting the work of the Methodist Missionary Society (from the Methodist Union of 1932), and the work of its predecessor missionary societies prior to 1932 - the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, Primitive Methodist Missionary Society, and the missionary societies of the churches that formed the United Methodist Church - and covering overseas missionary work in Europe, North America, West Indies, Africa, India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), China, Burma and Australasia.

The main series for the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society/Methodist Missionary Society include material from the home organisation in London, which directed overseas missionary affairs, including Committee minutes and papers, candidates papers, 1829-1869, finance papers, 1817-1945, and outgoing correspondence. However, the bulk of the material comprises Synod minutes and correspondence send to London from missionaries in the overseas districts, including Europe, North America, West Indies, West Africa, Central Africa, South Africa, Kenya, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Southern India, Northern India, Burma, China & South East Asia, and Australasia/South Seas. Special series include biographical material of missionaries from all denominations; missionary ships' logs and papers; and a miscellaneous assortment of notes, typescripts, unpublished articles and histories. There are approximately 2500 photographs, which cover India, Burma, Ceylon, Australasia, Africa, China and the West Indies.

The collection also includes minutes of Conference for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1744-1976.

Registers of marriage, 1931-1962.

Records of Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Wembley, including Communicants' roll book, 1901-1922; Court of Session minute books, 1901-1929; Managers' minute books, 1902-1943 and photographs of the Scout Troop, particularly of summer camps, 1924-1937.

Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Falmouth Road, Southwark: income and expenditure weekly account book, Jan 1925-Dec 1933.

Leases for property on Fish Street Hill, 1841; papers regarding the appointment of new Trustees, 1885-1952; meeting house certificate, 1834; papers regarding Chancery proceedings relating to the Metropolitan and District Railways Extensions Act, 1884-1887; papers relating to the Chapel relocation to Westminster, 1887-1893; licence and lease for property on Saint George Hanover Square, 1952-1953 and Charity Commission Order permitting the London Congregational Union to sell the Chapel, 1966.

Records of Wealdstone Methodist Church, comprising pamphlet commemorating sixty years of Wealdstone Methodist Church building, 1964 and booklet commemorating centenary of Wealdstone Methodist Church society, 1983.

Records of Watling Congregational Church, Mill Hill including marriage registers 1956 - 1980., sunday school cradle roll 1951 to 1956, minutes of church meetings 1939 - 1971, 1984 - 1999, church council 1945 - 1949, combined deacons and church meetings 1952 - 1957, deacon's meetings 1971 - 1984 and elders' meetings 1972 - 1995, cash books from 1926 to 2001 and various photographs.

Scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings, correspondence, photographs and printed material relating to the church, 1890-1813 and interior and exterior photographs of the church building, 20th century.

Register of baptisms, 1864-1925; register of marriages, 1881-1926; Building Committee and Trustees minute book, 1863-1901; Trustees minute book, 1902-1919; Executive Committee minute book, 1922-1925; reports of West London Mission, 1925; correspondence, 1925-1926.

Photographs, c1893-1960s, of Central Africa by Harold Edgar Wareham and his wife Rebecca Purves Wareham (née Stewart). Subject matter includes missionaries and mission stations in Northern Rhodesia, locals, church activities and scenery.

Register of baptisms, 1796-1894.

Marriage registers for Wandsworth Presbyterian Church, Merton Road, 1901-1940.

Marriage registers for Wandsworth Presbyterian Church, Briar Walk, Putney, 1915-1944.

Records of Wandsworth Presbyterian Church including Court of session minute books, 1904-1945; Deacons' Court minute books, 1871-1945; Sunday School teachers' minute book, 1902-1925; Communicants' roll books, 1874-1936 and register of baptisms, 1872-1944.

Records of the Wandsworth and Fulham Circuit including papers of Quarterly meetings, 1958-1969; Circuit Steward's account books and day books, 1949-1969; minute book of the Invitation Committee, later the General Purposes Committee, 1959-1969; financial accounts, 1963-1969; papers concerning closure of the Circuit, 1967-1969; papers concerning administration of the Manse and Roehampton Christian Community Centre, 1963-1969; correspondence, 1962-1969; Circuit preaching plans, 1949-1969; Trustees' meetings minute book, 1928-1968 and Sunday School minute book, 1956-1965.

Also year books of the Wandsworth Bridge Road Church, Fulham, Wandsworth Circuit, 1908-1913.

Register of baptisms for ?Walworth Methodist Church, 1850-1897, including people from parishes in Walworth, Newington, Lewisham, Camberwell, Rotherhithe and Bermondsey.

Records of the Vine Congregational Church comprising annual reports, 1898-1930 and registers of baptisms, 1906-1940.

Marriage registers for Villiers Road Congregational Church, Southall, Norwood Green, 1932-1970.