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[https://search.findmypast.ie/search-world-Records/london-and-middlesex-registers-and-records London & Middlesex Registers & Records] at Findmypast is a collection of six historical publications that contain more than 3,000 pages of aldermen, freeman, and criminal records (also parish registers from Chapel of Holy Trinity and St Nicholas Acons). | [https://search.findmypast.ie/search-world-Records/london-and-middlesex-registers-and-records London & Middlesex Registers & Records] at Findmypast is a collection of six historical publications that contain more than 3,000 pages of aldermen, freeman, and criminal records (also parish registers from Chapel of Holy Trinity and St Nicholas Acons). | ||
Michael Gandy has concluded that even though most Londoners baptized their children Anglican in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many were actually irreligious and simply performed this rite to qualify their children for poor relief. Historians have also concluded that a great deal of underregistration of baptisms, marriages, and burials occurred in early modern London parishes.<ref>E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield, ''The Population History of England, 1541-1871: A Reconstruction'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).</ref> | Michael Gandy has concluded that even though most Londoners baptized their children Anglican in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many were actually irreligious and simply performed this rite to qualify their children for poor relief. Historians have also concluded that a great deal of underregistration of baptisms, marriages, and burials occurred in early modern London parishes.<ref>E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield, ''The Population History of England, 1541-1871: A Reconstruction'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).</ref> Church of England burial registers help alleviate lack of registration of deaths by the civil government in London prior to 1866.<ref>Cliff Webb, [http://www.origins.net/help/aboutbo-LondonBurials.aspx 'About Greater London Burials 1545-1909,'] ''British Origins,'' accessed 4 April 2013.</ref> | ||
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=K9c-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=Marrying+London+by+Mrs.+Belloc-Lowndes&source=bl&ots=4_M6tImTXP&sig=8SCZKhaGR7vCVgLOe48tF7K-gtU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cW_GT92eFMK-2gXY3dWtAQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Marrying%20London%20by%20Mrs.%20Belloc-Lowndes&f=false ''Marrying | *[http://books.google.com/books?id=K9c-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=Marrying+London+by+Mrs.+Belloc-Lowndes&source=bl&ots=4_M6tImTXP&sig=8SCZKhaGR7vCVgLOe48tF7K-gtU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cW_GT92eFMK-2gXY3dWtAQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Marrying%20London%20by%20Mrs.%20Belloc-Lowndes&f=false ''Marrying London'' by Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes]: 'Penny Weddings' | ||
=== Guildhall Library === | === Guildhall Library === | ||
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== Historical Background == | == Historical Background == | ||
Click [http://books.google.com/books?id=tjEQAAAAYAAJ here] to read a contemporary description of the parishes within the environs of the City of London from James Elmes, | Click [http://books.google.com/books?id=tjEQAAAAYAAJ here] to read a contemporary description of the parishes within the environs of the City of London from James Elmes, ''<span id="1267206418766S" style="display: none"> </span>Topographical Dictionary of London ''(published in 1831). Each parish is listed under the name of the patron saint to which it was dedicated, i.e. St Mary Abchurch, will be listed under the "M" section under "Mary", or, St Lawrence Jewry will be listed under the "L" section under "Lawrence", and St Andrew Holborn, under the "A" section under "Andrew". | ||
Click [https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=730390&word=NULL here] to read a description of the City of London | Click [https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=730390&word=NULL here] to read a description of the City of London from John Marius Wilson, ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales ''(published in 1870-72).'' '' | ||
Photographs of many of London's churches may be viewed online at the [http://www.london-city-churches.org.uk/ Friends of the City Churches] website. (See Indexes of Churches.) | Photographs of many of London's churches may be viewed online at the [http://www.london-city-churches.org.uk/ Friends of the City Churches] website. (See Indexes of Churches.) | ||
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