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Few bishop's transcripts survive for City of London parishes before 1800. The exceptions being large numbers of returns that survive for the years 1629-1630 and 1639-1640.<ref>Cliff Webb, ''My Ancestors were Londoners: A Guide to London Sources for Family Historians'' (London: Society of Genealogists, 2009), 23.</ref><br> | Few bishop's transcripts survive for City of London parishes before 1800. The exceptions being large numbers of returns that survive for the years 1629-1630 and 1639-1640.<ref>Cliff Webb, ''My Ancestors were Londoners: A Guide to London Sources for Family Historians'' (London: Society of Genealogists, 2009), 23.</ref><br> | ||
[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> 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> | 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> | ||
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=== Society of Genealogists === | === Society of Genealogists === | ||
The [[Society of Genealogists Library]] in London has collected microfilm copies or transcripts of most of London's parish registers. Their unique collections are described by Cliff Webb, see [[London Church Records#Online_Research_Guides|Online Research Guides]].<br> | The [[Society of Genealogists Library]] in London has collected microfilm copies or transcripts of most of London's parish registers. Their unique collections are described by Cliff Webb, see [[London Church Records#Online_Research_Guides|Online Research Guides]].<br> | ||
== Nonconformists == | == Nonconformists == | ||