South East

London and the South East

Greater London, the Home Counties & Southern England

Sheerness

This area includes: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Kent, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex and Oxfordshire

Two views of central London

Research Favourites

Buckinghamshire Record Office is combining with Aylesbury Local Studies Library. At the time of writing the building is closed and due to reopen in February 2002. Please check their website for the latest details. www.buckscc.gov.uk/archives/index.stm

The British Library [see Newspapers] is at Colindale Avenue, London NW9.

The FRC (Family Record Centre) is at Myddleton Street in central London www.familyrecords.gov.uk

Records for Hertfordshire are held in Hertford at HALS. Details are available at www.hertsdirect.org/infoadvice/history/

The LMA (London Metropolitan Archives) have Jewish material [permission is often required to view records so check before travelling] www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/archives/lma

The National Archive [formerly known as the Public Record Office] is at Kew www.pro.gov.uk

There is a fair amount of material about Sheerness in both Cecil Roth, "The Rise of Provincial Jewry" and Geoffrey L. Green, "The Royal Navy & Anglo-Jewry 1740-1820". (Submitted by Michael Sayers)

Do try this website even if you don't have London based ancestors:
http://www.londonancestor.com/kents/kents-uv.htm There are lots of interesting sections including 'Kent's Directory, 1794 London, Westminster and Southwark' which has an alphabetical list - 7 Levy names! [Ruth in Brum]

The Victorian Web - Literature, history and culture in the age of Queen Victoria
http://www.victorianweb.org/
The Georgian Index http://www.georgianindex.net/
Georgian London - Street and Business Index http://www.georgianindex.net/London/l_home.html#TOP
A mixture of histories and descriptions of the Tower Hamlets area as it was in the past, all taken from the Tower Hamlets' Local History Library and Archives. http://www.thhol.org.uk/
The Charles Booth Online Archive is a searchable resource giving access to archive material from the Booth collections of the British Library of Political and Economic Science (the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science) and the University of London Library. http://booth.lse.ac.uk/ [Pauline]

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