Welcome to the parishregister May newsletter. This month we've uploaded another in the St Dunstan's series, 1608-1628, so we're (or I should say Jim is) gradually closing the gap up to 1730. Once that's been achieved then we'll have all the records from 1568 all the way up to 1848! We've also got the first of our Catholic Register CDs back in stock (SS Mary and Joseph), two new CDs from the East of London Family History Society, three offers on East of London Family History CDs, a new special offer on our compendiums 1-5, and a new book in stock.
Searchable Databases
Last month:
St Dunstan Stepney 1568-1608 8104 entries
This month:
St Dunstan Stepney 1608-1628 10040 entries
I must say it was really interesting looking through both of these masterpieces of social history expertly transcribed by Jim (they weren't in the best condition as you can imagine). Early on in both I started noticing a number of 'Sirs' appearing with the occupation given as 'knight', like Sir Roger Workinton and there was also a Right Honourable Lord Herbert in one. Also it's interesting to see how they spelt place names 400 hundred years ago e.g Bednal Green, Lymehouse, Radclife and Myle End. A few interesting occupations were also thrown up; bodymaker, Bazill man, coluper, house smith and beggar (would you admit to this?) to name but a few.
To search the site click here
New CD
Last Month:
Volume 69 St John Wapping baptism Registers 1665-1707 (7410 Entries)
To buy this CD please click here: Vol 69
Volume 70 St John Wapping 1734-1780 8180 entries
To buy this CD please click here: Vol 70
Merchant Taylors 1530-1928 - to search click here Merchant Taylors
Find out more about the Merchant Taylors click here: Merchanttaylors.net
In transcription
St Matthew Bethnal Green 1799-1819
St George in the East 1877-1893
St Anthony Globe Road 1879-1899
St Dunstan Stepney 1628-1637
Other selected products
East of London Family History Society
New!
Tower Hamlets Rate Books (Vol 1)- Disc1
Miscellaneous Rate Index covering various Areas between 1725-1875
Previous Society publication in fiche or book form now converted into CD.
Bethnal Green Church Rates 1743. Bethnal Green Rate 1850 -1.
Bow Poor Rate 1837. Bow Rate April 1851.
Bromley Church Rate June 1861. Bromley Land Tax 1750. Old Artillery Ground Drainage Rate 1861. Poplar Church Rate June 1851.
Shadwell Poor Rate 1725. St George in the East Land Tax 1801. Wapping Watch Rate 1800. Wapping Church Rate 1875.
Whitechapel Watch Rate 1800 & 1805
To buy this product please click here: Ratevol1
Also New
Tower Hamlets Marriages & Banns (Vol 1)-Disc3
Previous Society publication in fiche or book form now converted into CD.
Holy Trinity Minories 1676 - 1754
Christ Church Spitalfields Banns 1833 - 1861
To buy this product please click here: MarrBanns
St Andrews
Burials & M.I. St. Andrews Church, Hornchurch. 1576-2000
Surname index of Monumental Inscriptions and Burials, of 17,195 names for the years of 1576 - 2000.
This month there's £2 off this product. To buy it please click here: St Andrew
Cockney Ancestors
Cockney Ancestor. The first 100.
NOW available a CD containing the first 100 editions of Cockney Ancestor.
Once you open an edition on your computer you will be able to scroll through it, page by page or use the search facility, to search using a word or phrase, either the one journal open on your computer or all 100 on the CD,
Each journal has its own Contents index of articles which is linked to the relevant article
You can also enlarge to view.
The CD is in Adobe Acrobat (PDF).
There's also £2.50 off this product, so if you want it, click here: Cockney
Frogleys
The Frogley Index and Manuscript (History of Barking)
The manuscript seems to have been written during late 1890 to about 1910, with a couple of notes added as late as 1913. It has approx. 3,000 personal names and nearly 1,400 place names.
There's also £2.50 off this little gem, so once again, click here if you'd like to buy it: Frog
Other products in this series include:
Crow Lane Burial index 1871-1953 listing 20,000 entries.
Census 1851 West Ham.HO107/1768.
Including the following sub-districts of Stratford: Stratford, Plaistow, Church St. West Ham: East Ham & Little Ilford.
Census 1891 Hackney Part 1.RG12/0179 - 0194.
Covering: Stoke Newington, Stamfod Hill, West Hackney and Hackney.
Published by the East of London FHS.
Census 1891 West Ham Part 1 RG12/1310 - 1325
Including the areas of Stratford: Custom House also parts of Canning Town & Plaistow.
Census 1891 West Ham Part 2 RG12/1326 - 1342
Including the areas of: Plaistow (part), Canning Town (part), West Ham, Upton, Forest Gate,
East Ham, Manor park, little Ilford, Beckton and North Woolwich.
Watermen & Lightermen
Apprenticeships Bindings Index 1692-1908 (Vols 1-9)
Complete set Apprenticeship Bindings Vols 1-9
This Adobe Acrobat searchable CD-Rom contains Rob Cottrell’s transcriptions of the Company of Watermen & Lightermen Apprenticeship Bindings - over 65,000 names from 1692 to 1908. Each entry shows the apprentice’s name, date of binding, location, Master or Mistress’s full name and date of freedom (if granted). For example;
5701. LEGON JOHN 09/04/1742 SHADWELL THOMAS LEGON 28/04/1749
Also on the CD you will find information on Doggett’s Coat and Badge Race, including a list of winners, with their binding dates, location and Masters, from 1716 to 1900, and an article by Rob on the History of the Company.
This CD is the starting point for those with waterage ancestry. Once you have established the Binding date of your ancestor, the next step is to apply for his Apprenticeship Affidavit. This will show you his dates of birth and baptism and most importantly, the parish he was born in. This then enables further research.
To buy this very popular CD please click here: AB
The Company of Watermen & Lightermen : Reassignment Index 1688-1908.
This CD lists some 12,000 apprentices that were reassigned from their original master to another. In some cases to more than one other master.
The entries were extracted from the Apprenticeship Bindings Indexes that cover the same time period.A typical entry reads as follows:
6687. LEGON GEORGE GAMBLES BOUND 1851 DEC 11 REASSIGNED 1858 JAN 14 TO JUDITH LEGON
(Whom I happen to know was his mother).
To buy this Cd please click here: RI
You can browse all of the other Watermen and Lightermen products by clicking here: W&L
Catholic Registers
SS. Mary and Joseph, Poplar Roman Catholic Chapel.
Marriages and Baptisms 1818 - 1856
Marriages:- Bride, Groom and may include parents and witnesses.
Baptisms:- Name of baptised, and may include Mother, Father and sponsors.
To buy this CD please click here: SSMary
Misc Catholic London District Baptism, Marriages and Burials Vol 1
27 indexed transcriptions of Catholic Parish Registers from churches, chapels and missions in the county of Middlesex
To buy this CD please click here: Catholic 2
The Registers of the Sardinian Embassy Chapel, London, 1772 - 1841(Church of SS Anselm and Cecilia in Holborn). This comprises indexed transcriptions of over 22000 baptisms hitherto unpublished, a work which has taken them about 10 years to produce!!In total there are 60000 odd entries on this CD, a bargain at £7.95!
To buy this CD please click here: Catholic 3
Here's the new Catholic Family History Society CD I promised you:
Misc Catholic London District Transcriptions, Baptisms, Marriages,Confirmations Vol 2
· French Chapel Royal: Baptisms 1842-1911 and Marriages 1846-1910
· Kentish Town, St Alexis: Baptisms 1849-1854
· Blessed Virgin Mary of Czestochowa and St Stanislaus Kostka Chapels, Central London: Baptisms 1863-1877
· Soho St Patrick: Baptisms 1779-1851, Index to Baptisms 1793-1937, Confirmations 1818-1854 and Marriages 1809-1856
· Southwark St George's Fields Chapel: Baptisms 1788-1823 and Marriages 1823-1837
· St James, Spanish Place, Westminster: Baptisms 1732-1848 and Marriages 1732-1845
· Standon, Old Hall Green, Herts.: Baptisms 1811-1831, Confirmations 1814-1849 and Marriages 1812-1848
· Virginia Street Chapel, Wapping: Baptisms 1832-1840
If you would like this CD please click here: Catholic 4
Merchant Taylors
The Merchant Taylors 1520-1929 (36000 entries-Exclusive to Docklands Ancestors!)The index gives the name, date of freedom, method of admission (apprenticeship, patrimony, or redemption), name of master if by apprenticeship, date of election to livery, and 'Remarks'.
To purchase this CD please click here: Merchant Taylors
Thames and River Medway Series
If you'd like to browse the 84 CDs which contain a selection of marriages, banns, burials and baptisms available from Rob Cottrell please click here: T&RMS
SPECIAL OFFER Compendium CDs 1-5
This is a very special offer price for customers who wish to buy our first five Compendium CDs.
The five CDs comprise volumes 1-60 of the Docklands Ancestors Series of parish register transcriptions.
Please see the itemised descriptions on the individual CDs for a complete list of contents.
Price if bought separately: 60 x £7.95 = £477
Price of individual Compendium CDs: £49.99 + £39.99 + £39.99 + £39.99 + £49.99 = £219.95
Special Offer price: £149.99
To take advantage of this special discount please click here: 1-5
Also, don't forget we've recently brought out compendium 6
vol 61 St Anne Limehouse 1854-1877
vol 62 St Dunstan Stepney 1835-1837
vol 63 St Mary Whitechapel 1774-1792
vol 64 Christ Church, Spitalfield 1729-1763
vol 65 Christ Church Spitalfield 1763-1795
vol 66 St George in the East 1861-1877
vol 67 St Dunstan Stepney 1837-1848
vol 68 St George in the East 1848-1861
vol 69 St John Wapping 1665-1707
Vol 70 St John Wapping 1734-1780
Docklands Ancestors Parish Register CDs - Compendiums' Department
Docklands Ancestors Parish Register CD Department
East of London FHS Publications Department
Map Department
Map of Middlesex 1611 by by John Norden and John Speed
This beautiful and highly illustrated map of Middlesex has 2 town plans. One of Westminster and the other of London being separate towns at that time. In the lower 2 corners of this map are drawings of Saint Peters or Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral with a set of notes on each. St Paul's is shown with the loss of its spire in 1561 before it was restored in the 1630s by Inigo Jones. The print shown is a copy of the original and so is in colour, the print we offer you is in black and white. The print measures 46cms x 58cms.
To buy this map for £4.95 plus p&p please click here: Middlesex
A Balloon View of London 1851
One of several maps and panoramas of London to come out in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition. This is an aerial panorama, naming streets and showing many individual buildings. The view is looking southwards and therefore appears "upside-down" compared to most maps. The enormous glass building built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition is shown - Cockneys dubbed it the "Crystal Palace" and it's even named as such on the panorama.
The black and white map is an exhilarating view of London looking south over the River Thames, as if taken from a balloon over Hampstead. This plan/view's extent (St John's Wood - Battersea Park - De Beauvoir Town - Greenwich) and large size makes for a superbly detailed image with innumerable streets, buildings and landmarks identifiable. First published on the opening day of the Great Exhibition, the plan proved immensely popular with re-issues appearing into the late 1870s.
Size:101x66 cm
To buy one for £8.50 click here: Balloon
Devastated London - The Bombed City As Seen From A Barrage Balloon
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Ecclesiastical Map-County of London 1903
A Map of the Ecclesiastical Divisions within the County of London 1903. The map shows all Church of England parish boundaries in the London County Council area on a scale of 2 miles to the inch. Facsimile, printed in colour and folded in a case with brief introduction by Simon Morris. Approximate extent: Highgate to Streatham; Hammersmith to Isle of Dogs. Publication no 155 (1999).
Price: £5.00 To buy this map please click here
London and Its Environs 1813
Price: £3.95! To buy this map and for more information please click here
Rocque's 1745 Survey of London
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