London Westminster & Middlesex Family History Society

May: Events in London

London Metropolitan Archives

Tuesday 15 May 2-3pm

Talk: Out on the Town.

An illustrated talk which offers a glimpse of London’s nightlife over the last 200 years. Documents, prints and photographs reveal London at its best and worst.

Wednesday 23 May 2-3pm

Workshop: Focus on Family History.

For beginners – come along and learn how to get the most out of digitised family history sources, including Ancestry.co.uk

The above events are free but book in advance on:

020 7332 3851

Guildhall Library

Wednesday 16 May 2-3pm

Talk; Artists in the City

A talk exploring the creative side of the City focusing on the works of Holbein, Van Dyke, Hogarth and Rossetti

Wednesday 19 May 2-3pm

Talk: Dickens and the City

This talk will be followed by an optional guided walk of Dickens’ Haunted London. The walk lasts up to two hours and costs £7.50 per person.

Talks are free-but book in advance on 020 7332 1868

Guildhall Art Gallery 

Free Friday Tour

Every Friday, 12.15, 1.15, 2.15 and 3.15pm

Combine a visit to the Gallery with a free tour of highlights of the Gallery’s permanent collection and the Roman Amphitheatre.

http://www.locatinglondon.org/

This website allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map.

Records of crime, poor relief, taxation, elections, local administration, plague deaths and archaeological finds can all be searched and mapped on this site.

Over ½m burial and cremation records for north and central London

Burial and cremation records dating from 1854 for the boroughs of Islington and Camden in central north London are now on Deceased Online. Two conjoined cemeteries, St Pancras and Islington, form the largest single cemetery in London and, in burial numbers, the largest in the UK.

Of the 800,000 burial records, approximately 70% of these are available immediately with the remainder to be uploaded within the next 3 to 4 months. The 575,000 records currently available comprise nearly 362,000 for the Islington section between 1854 and 1945 and the remaining 213,000 for the St Pancras section are for 1854 to 1898, and 1905 to 1911. Also available now are 46,500 records from Islington Crematorium which date back to 1937. The 8,500 most recent cremation records will be added in the next few months, together with the remaining cemetery records. 

The cemeteries and crematorium serve a large catchment area across Central and North London and will therefore be a major research resource. The burial records are in the form of scans of registers; grave details indicating all occupants are available immediately for St Pancras Cemetery, and for Islington Cemetery will follow in the near future. The cremation records include scans of registers.

Notable burials include Henry Croft, the original Pearly King; violinist and conductor Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens, John Hickey (survivor of the charge of the Light Brigade complete with a memorial erected by, among others, Jerome K Jerome); MP and industrialist Alfred Mond, interred in a stunning mausoleum; recipients of the Victoria Cross and hundreds of other war graves; Ford Maddox Brown, the Pre-Raphaelite painter; and Cora Crippen (aka Belle Elmore), alleged victim of Dr Harvey Crippen.

Over the next few months, maps of areas in the cemetery indicating grave locations will be uploaded together with photographs of many notable memorials and headstones.

The Deceased Online database for London is now over 1.1 million including the Borough areas of Islington, Camden, Havering and Merton. Many more records for other areas in London will be added in the near future.

http://www.deceasedonline.com/