WSFHS – Miscellaneous Indexes and Resources

The following resources are available to members and visitors alike at West Surrey FHS Open Days. Access at other times may be arranged by prior agreement. Members will find further details in the current “Guide for Members”. Non Members requiring further information about these services should contact the Society’s Secretary.

All postal enquiries should be accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope. Overseas enquirers should send 3 IRCs.

IGI (INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX), 1992 and 1988 editions

Content: County-by-county indexes of baptisms and marriages in parish registers and some nonconformist registers, on microfiche. Area covered: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Channel Islands, Isle of Man.
Time span: From earliest registers up to approximately 1875 (some later).

SURREY STRAYS INDEX

Content: A slip index of people belonging in Surrey, recorded in other counties. Sources include parish registers, census returns, settlement papers, poll book entries, Freemen’s lists, monumental inscriptions. The index for the whole county is maintained by East Surrey Family History Society.
Area covered: Mainly Britain, including Channel Islands, with a few from other countries.
Time span: Majority in the 19th century, with occasional entries from earlier centuries back to the 16th century.
Details online at: http://www.eastsurreyfhs.org.uk/strays.htm

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM “CAMBERLEY NEWS”

Paul Charleton is in the process of producing, is an index of all the family announcements from “The Camberley News” and associated papers. Over 2900 papers and over 63500 names have indexed, starting from 1950 to the present day. 1991 and 2001 have been published on fiche. Please Click Here to see current status.

1851 CENSUS INDEXES LONDON AND MIDDLESEX

Content: The counties, districts, and HO 107 piece numbers are listed below.

East of London FHS #
*1503-1506 Hackney
1533-1538 Shoreditch
1539-1542 Bethnal Green (plus street index)
*1547-1549 St George in East
1543 Whitechapel - Artillery and Spitalfields
1544 Whitechapel - Mile End Old Town
1545 Whitechapel - Church and North
1546 Whitechapel - Goodmans Field &
Aldgate
1555-1556 Poplar
1768 West Ham
Cliff Webb & Tim Wilcock #
*1550 Shadwell & Wapping
*1551 Ratcliff
*1552 Mile End Old Town (Upper Hamlet)
*1553 Mile End Old Town (Lower Hamlet)
*1554 Limehouse
London & North Middlesex FHS #
*1486-1491 Marylebone
*1492-1498 Hampstead/St Pancras
*1499-1502 Islington
1507-1509 St Giles
1513-1515 Holborn
1516-1519 Clerkenwell
1520-1523 St Lukes
1524-1527 E & W City of London
(outside walls)
1528-1532 City of London (within the walls)
*1700-1704 Barnet, Edmonton, Hendon
West Middlesex FHS #
*1466, *1467 Paddington
*1468-1471 Brompton, Fulham,
Hammersmith, Kensington
*1472-1474 Chelsea
*1604 (part),
*1698 Hampton, Isleworth, Twickenham
*1696 Staines, Sunbury
1697 Uxbridge
*1699 Acton, Brentford, Chiswick
Westminster & Central Middlesex FHS #
*1475 Hanover Square
*1476 Mayfair
*1477, *1478 Belgrave
*1479 Westminster St John
*1480 Westminster St Margaret
*1481 Charing Cross
*1482 Long Acre
*1483 Berwick Street
*1484 St James’ Square
*1485 Golden Square
*1510 St Anne Soho
*1511 St Mary le Strand
*1512 St Clement Danes
# = Indexer/Publisher * = Surname only

1891 CENSUS RETURNS - NON-METROPOLITAN SURREY

Content: Microfiche copies of the 1891 census returns for rural Surrey.
Area covered: Non-Metropolitan Surrey. The piece numbers are RG 12/542-624, 789, 1009, 1010, 1013.

1901 CENSUS RETURNS - NON-METROPOLITAN SURREY

Content: Microfiche copies of the 1901 census returns for rural Surrey.
Area covered: Non-Metropolitan Surrey. The piece numbers are RG 13/578-680,1165-1167, 1170.

PALLOT’S MARRIAGE AND BAPTISMS INDEXES 1780-1837

Content: Marriage Index More than 1.5 million marriages taken from the original hand-written index held by the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, Canterbury. Entries are mainly from London and Middlesex, but the index also includes entries from 2,500 parishes in 38 counties outside London.
Content: Baptisms Index 200,000 baptisms covering 22 parishes in London and Middlesex and around 27 other parishes including Wales.
Time span (both indexes): 1780-1837.
Publication: The indexes have been produced by Ancestry.com on CD-ROM. They can be purchased from TWR Computing. 5 Mexborough Business Centre, College Road, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, S64 9JP

SURREY LAND TAX INDEX

Content: Series of volumes (compiled by Mrs P Neville) containing alphabetical listings of names appearing in Land Tax assessments, mainly of owners and occupiers of property. They do not show in which years the names appear, and are thus only a general index to the assessments, which are available on microfilm at Surrey History Centre.
Area covered: All non-metropolitan parishes in Surrey.
Time span: 1780-1831 for most parishes, up to 1832 for a few.