Research Aids Series (RA)
These items are designed to assist the researcher by providing location lists and guides to documents, classifying material, maps and other ideas which will help the genealogist in his task. Please note: although a number of items in the RESEARCH AIDS SERIES cover London, Middlesex and Metropolitan Surrey, we are NOT able to offer help with research in these areas. The appropriate society for the area should be approached.The postage and packaging cost is for UK only. If you wish to buy from outside the UK, please use Genfair
RA 2 Suburban London - Map showing Parish Boundaries in London before 1837 - 3rd edition completely revised
This item complements the county parish maps produced by the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, Canterbury. The main use is in planning a search pattern if an ancestor does not turn up in the expected parish.Price including UK P&P £1.20
RA 3 Registration Districts in Surrey and Rural Middlesex, 1850
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 3RA 5 Guide to the Surrey Censuses of 1841, 1851 and 1861
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 5RA 6 Guide to Genealogical Research in Victorian London
by Cliff Webb (8th edition November reprinted with minor amendments 2009).Our most popular item! Shows how to reduce the cost of searching for Victorian London ancestors, with a list of parishes and registers for the London area outside the City, created before 1870, and a map of parish boundaries c.1870. The latest edition, as well as showing the latest register deposits, has an appendix making it easier to locate churches in smaller districts and also lists the Boroughs in which the Parishes and Registration Districts lie.
Price including UK P&P £3.10
RA 7 Surrey Inhabitants Lists
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 7RA 8 Genealogical Gazetteer of Mid-Victorian London
This is a companion to RA6, listing streets, and indicating which Victorian parish they were located in. This makes it possible to search in parish registers in a more structured manner, if a street address is known.Price including UK P&P £3.70
RA 9 Guide to the Surrey Censuses 1871,1881, 1891 and 1901
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 9RA 11 Surrey Probate Records, Marriage Licences and Bishops' Transcripts
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 11RA 12 The Hundreds of Surrey
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 12RA 13 Surrey Parishes with a List of Neighbouring Parishes
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 13RA 14 Guide to the Surrey Lay Subsidies 1500-1645
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 14RA 15 Guide to Genealogical Research in Late Victorian and Edwardian London - Revised 5th edition, November 2004
This is a supplement to RA6, listing parishes founded in the 1870-1903 period. It also covers a wider area than RA6, extending to the whole of the old LCC district, and listing those outer parishes in the same way as RA6 does for the inner ones. It also has a map of parish boundaries for 1903. This new edition also includes a new appendix designed to help one locate churches which fell within districts smaller than Registration Districts in size.Price including UK P&P £3.10
RA 17 Parishes and Periods in the Surrey IGI
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 17RA 18 Surrey Parish Codes
320 three-letter codes, similar in principle to the Chapman County Codes, for recording Surrey towns and villages.Price including UK P&P £1.00
RA 19 The Monumental Inscriptions of Surrey: A List of Copies
Compiled by Tim Wilcock.This lists all known copies of Surrey MIs and the places where they may be found. The survey will, hopefully, not only prove useful in itself, but encourage us to complete the recording of our remaining uncopied inscriptions, before they succumb to the English climate and atmosphere!
Price including UK P&P £1.85
RA 20 Middlesex in the 1988 IGI - Parishes and Periods Covered
See RA17 above.Price including UK P&P £0.85
RA 21 Guide to Middlesex Lay Subsidies 1500-1645
See RA14 above.Price including UK P&P £0.85
RA 22 The Hundreds of Middlesex
See RA12 abovePrice including UK P&P £0.75
RA 23 Middlesex Contiguous Parishes
See RA13 above.Price including UK P&P £0.85
RA 24 Middlesex Wills, Marriage Licences and Bishops' Transcripts - 2nd edition 1993
See RA11 above.Price including UK P&P £1.00
RA 25 Guide to the Middlesex Census 1801-1861 - 4th edition 1998
See RA5 above.Price including UK P&P £1.00
RA 26 Guide to the Middlesex Census 1871, 1881 and 1891 - 3rd edition 1996
This has been revised to include the 1891 CENSUS details.See RA5 above.
Price including UK P&P £1.00
RA20-RA26 as a set
See RA 20 to RA 26 abovePrice including UK P&P £3.20
RA 29 A List of Surrey Directories and their Locations
Listing those directories up to 1950 and where copies are known to be held.Price including UK P&P £2.60
RA 30 Streets, Parishes and Wards of the City of London
Complementing RA8 by providing a guide to the streets, courts and alleyways which comprised the City of London in the Victorian era.Price including UK P&P £3.90
RA 31 London, Middlesex and Surrey Workhouse Records - A Guide to their Nature and Location
Listing the Unions of the various Boards of Guardians with the dates of formation. The known surviving records are listed with closure periods for each area. Maps showing the coverage of the Unions are included.Price including UK P&P £2.10
RA 32 A Guide to Surrey Genealogy and Records - Revised second edition
A list of the basic records of the county and indexes to them that may exist. Manuscript and typescript works are also listed.Price including UK P&P £3.10
RA 33 A Guide to Middlesex Parish Documents Including Poor Law Records by Cliff Webb
This completely revised 5th edition, November 2004, incorporates The Parochial Poor Law Records of Middlesex as preserved in local libraries and record offices compiled and published by Cliff Webb in 1986. The records listed include registers, churchwardens accounts, vestry minutes, overseers of the poor, etc.Price including UK P&P £3.10
RA 34 A List of Books and Articles about Surrey Places
A companion volume to RA32.A guide to what has been written about the various locations in Surrey.
Price including UK P&P £3.10
RA 35 A Guide to Surrey Manorial Records - 2nd edition, September 2005
By Cliff Webb.A completely revised edition with a further 16 pages of information. In the introduction, Cliff Webb writes: “I have tried to list every known Surrey manor. They have then been arranged under ancient parishes, as the units of government most familiar to users. However, few manors were co-terminous with parishes. Most parishes contained several manors and a few manors spread over several parishes or parts of parishes. An index of manors has been supplied.”
Out of print BUT included in CD7
RA 36 A Guide to London and Middlesex Genealogy and Records - 6th edition, March 2007
By Cliff Webb.This new edition has been expanded to include references to websites and URLs as well as the sources included in the previous editions of this Guide. A5
Price including UK P&P £4.70
RA 37 Middlesex Directories - A Finding List - 2nd edition, 1998
A guide to the location of those directories that are known to have survived.Price including UK P&P £2.80
RA 38 A Guide to London and Middlesex Manorial Records - 2nd edition, September 2006
Compiled by Cliff Webb.Completely revised and updated, this edition runs to another 20 pages of information. 36 pages, A5.
Price including UK P&P £3.10
RA 39 A List of Books and Articles about London, Middlesex and Metropolitan Surrey Places - 3rd edition 2006
A companion volume to RA36, compiled by Cliff Webb who writes in the introduction: ‘It is already extremely difficult for a researcher to know what has been written about his subject and area…. Nobody can know from the title that “The Best of All Possible Worlds” describes a childhood in Streatham. Where I have been able to identify them, I have given in square brackets a brief description of some of the books concerned’. A5, 84 pages.Price including UK P&P £4.70
RA 40 A List of Surrey Parishes - Ancient and Modern
List 1: The ancient churches and the new parishes created from them.List 2: New parishes created since 1832.
List 3: Chapels of Ease with separate registers since 1832.
Price including UK P&P £1.60
RA 41 Surrey Parishes pre-1837
Map showing the parish boundaries and the contiguous parishes at the county boundaries.Price including UK P&P £1.60
RA 42 A Guide to Surrey Parish Documents
A list by parish, showing where the records, including registers, churchwardens accounts, vestry minutes, overseers of the poor, etc. exist and can be found.This supercedes RA4, RA16 and RA27 which are now out of print.
Price including UK P&P £3.10
RA 43 Old Ordnance Survey Maps of London - General Index to the Godfrey Edition
Compiled by George C Dickinson.Key to Index - For use in conjunction with RA 44, 45 & 46 (below). 22 pages. A5.
Price including UK P&P £1.60
RA 44 General Index to Old Ordnance Survey Maps of North-East London (Godfrey Edition)
Compiled by George C Dickinson.The first of a series of Indexes to these valuable London Maps, which MUST be used in conjunction with RA43 (above). Apart from streets, the aim has been to include everything that is specifically named on the maps. The following are included in this volume:
Beckton; Bermondsey & Wapping*; Bethnal Green & Bow; Bow, Bromley & West Ham; Canning Town, Custom House; Clapton, Lower; Creekmouth*; Dalston; Deptford North*; East Ham & Barking; Edmonton, Lower; Edmonton, Picket's Lock; Edmonton, South-East; Edmonton, Upper; Forest Gate; Greenwich & Isle of Dogs*; Hackney; Ilford; Leyton; Leytonstone & Leyton; Plaistow; Poplar; Rotherhithe*; Shoreditch; Silvertown*; Snaresbrook; Stamford Hill; Stepney & Limehouse; Stoke Newington; Stratford; Tottenham; Tottenham Marsh; Tottenham North; Walthamstow East; Walthamstow Marshes; Walthamstow West; Wanstead, Wanstead Flats; West India Docks*; Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Bank; Woolwich, North*. 88 pages. A5.
* North of Thames only.
Price including UK P&P £4.65
RA 45 General Index to Old Ordnance Survey Maps of North-West London (Godfrey Edition)
Compiled by George C Dickinson.The second of a series of Indexes to these valuable London Maps, which MUST be used in conjunction with RA43 (above). Apart from streets, the aim has been to include everything that is specifically named on the maps. The following are included in this volume:
Acton Town & Ealing Common; Acton, East & Wormholt; Acton, South & Gunnersbury; Alexandra Park & South Friern; Barnes*; Battersea & Fulham*; Brentford*; Chelsea*; Chiswick*; Clerkenwell, Kings Cross, Angel; Cricklewood & Child's Hill; Ealing, South; Ealing; Euston & Regent's Park; Finchley, East; Finchley, Mid; Finsbury Park & Stroud Green; Golders Green; Gospel Oak; Hammersmith & Fulham*; Hammersmith, North & Bedford Park; Hampstead; Hampton*; Hanwell & Norwood Green; Hartwell Village; Highbury & Islington; Highgate; Holborn, The City & The Strand*; Holland Park & Shepherd's Bush; Holloway, Upper; Homsey; Isleworth*; Kennington & Walworth*; Kensal Green & Queen's Park; Kensington; Kentish Town & Camden; Kenwood & Golders Hill; Kew, Gunnersbury & Old Brentford*; Kingston & Hampton Wick*; Muswell Hill; Neasden; Notting Hill; Paddington; Perivale; Pimlico, Sloane Square & Nine Elms*; Putney Bridge*; Richmond & St Margaret's*; Sheen, North, Mortlake, Kew Gardens*; St John's Wood; Swiss Cottage; Teddington & Hampton Hill; Teddington Lock*; Twickenham & Petersham*; Twickenham, West & Strawberry Hill; Waterloo & Southwark*; West End; Westminster & Victoria; Whitton; Willesden & Stonebridge Park; Willesden Green & Brondesbury; Willesden Junction; Wood Green. 120 pages. A5.
* North of Thames only
Price including UK P&P £6.15
RA 46 General Index to Old Ordnance Survey Maps of South-East and South-West London (Godfrey Edition)
Compiled by George C Dickinson.The third of a series of Indexes to these valuable London Maps, which MUST be used in conjunction with RA43 (above). Apart from streets, the aim has been to include everything that is specifically named on the maps. The following are included in this volume:
Barnes*; Battersea & Clapham; Battersea & Fulham*; Beckenham & Penge; Bermondsey & Wapping*; Blackheath; Brentford*; Brixton & Herne Hill; Brockley; Camberwell & Stockwell; Catford; Charlton; Chelsea*; Chiswick*; Clapham Common; Clapham Park & Balham; Creekmouth*; Crystal Palace, Anerley, Upper Norwood; Deptford North*; Dulwich Village; Dulwich, East & Peckham Rye; Eltham; Forest Hill; Greenwich & Isle of Dogs*; Hammersmith & Fulham*; Hampton*; Holborn, The City & The Strand*; Isleworth*; Kensington & Walworth*; Kew, Gunnersbury & Old Brentford*; Kidbrooke; Kingston & Hampton Wick*; Lewisham; Merton; Mottingham; New Cross; Norbury & Upper Norwood; Norwood, Lower; Old Kent Road; Peckham; Pimlico, Sloane Sq & Nine Elms*; Plumstead Marshes*; Plumstead; Putney Bridge*; Putney; Richmond & St Margaret's*; Richmond Hill & East Sheen; Roehampton; Rotherhithe*; Sheen, North, Mortlake & Kew Gardens*; Shooters Hill; Silvertown*; Southfields; Streatham, Lower; Streatham Hill & Tulse Hill; Streatham, West & Tooting; Sydenham, Lower; Sydenham, Upper; Teddington Lock*; Thornton Heath & Norbury; Tooting; Twickenham & Petersham*; Wandsworth Common; Wandsworth; Waterloo & Southwark*; West India Docks*; Wickham, East & Welling; Wimbledon, South & Merton Park; Woolwich, North*; Woolwich. 96 pages. A5.
*South of Thames only.
Price including UK P&P £5.45
RA 47 General Index to Old Ordnance Survey Maps of London - Surrey Extension (Godfrey Edition)
Compiled by George C Dickinson.The fourth of a series of Indexes to these valuable London Maps, which MUST be used in conjunction with RA43 (above). Apart from streets, the aim has been to include everything that is specifically named on the maps. The following are included in this volume:
Beddington & Waddon; Beddington Corner; Brookwood & Pirbright; Central Croydon; Croydon (Mitcham Road); Croydon (Woodside); Guildford; Purley; Purley Oaks; Shirley; South Beddington; South Croydon; Sutton; Thornton Heath; Warlingham; West Croydon & Selhurst. 16 pages. A5.
Price including UK P&P £2.10
RA 48 A List of Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions
By Cliff Webb.Monumental inscriptions are, of course, a very valuable source for genealogists. Many copies, made in the past, preserve information from tombstones no longer standing, or if standing, no longer legible. When modern surveys of churches and churchyards are made and published, it is not always clear whether the compilers have utilized and cross-checked with older copies. For this reason in this list, I have included all copies that I can find, except where it is clear that the copy is of a published edition.
Price including UK P&P £1.60
RA 49 London and Middlesex Baptism Registers and their Online Availability
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 49RA 50 London and Middlesex Marriage Registers Pre 1837 and their Online Availability
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 50RA 51 London and Middlesex Burials Registers Pre 1837 and their Online Availability
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 51RA 52 Surrey Electoral Registers and Where to Find Them
Compiled by Cliff Webb who writes: 'The 1832 Representation of the People Act created a new class of document, the Electoral Register. For any person to exercise their right to vote, they had (and have) to be on the current electoral register. They have been compiled annually since 1832, except for the war years of 1916-17 and 1940-44. ... In 1911 it was estimated 60% of the male adult population was registered. In 1918, what was effectively universal male suffrage was introduced and universal female suffrage but for over 30s only. In 1928 the franchise was extended to women from 21 to 30 and from 1971 the age limit was lowered to 18 (though soldiers and sailors of 19 and 20 had been registered after World War I)'. 12 pages. A5.Price including UK P&P £1.60
RA 53 London and Middlesex Nonconformist Registers digitised by Ancestry.com
Compiled by Cliff Webb, who writes: 'Ancestry.com have now digitised many nonconformist registers at London Metropolitan Archives and put them online on their pay per view site. It would seem that Ancestry.com really only intend this to be a search site, as the labelling of files often does not enable one to find out the actual church at which the record took place. ... I have accordingly compiled a list of these registers currently digitised arranged by the name accorded the entity in Ancestry's browsing list and given a clarification of this information, mainly identifying the location of the chapel, and sometimes the denomination.' 16 pages. A5.Also available online. Click here to view or print RA 53
Price including UK P&P £1.80
RA 54 South London and Surrey – Ancestry.com Coverage of Baptisms - post 1813
Compiled by Cliff Webb, who writes in the Introduction: 'In collaboration with London Metropolitan Archives (LMA), the Guildhall Library and the Corporation of London, Ancestry.com have digitised a large proportion of the parish registers and bishops' transcripts held by LMA and placed them on their website. They have also indexed the documents. ... It is worth noting that the BTs for Westminster parishes (whose registers are not at LMA) have been digitised (though they generally only run from about 1800 to the 1830s and have major gaps even then). Rather strangely BTs were completed for the burials from two large cemeteries: Norwood and Nunhead and these have also been digitised. In general Ancestry have digitised baptisms to 1906, marriages to 1921 and burials to whatever date they were available. However, most urban churchyards were closed in the 1850s, so there is relatively little material after then.' 16 pages. A5.Price including UK P&P £1.80
RA 55 South London and Surrey – Ancestry.com Coverage of Marriages - post 1754
Compiled by Cliff Webb (see RA54 above). 16 pages. A5.Price including UK P&P £1.80
RA 56 South London and Surrey – Ancestry.com Coverage of Burials - post 1813
Compiled by Cliff Webb (see RA54 above). 12 pages. A5.Price including UK P&P £1.60
RA 57 A Guide to Surrey Schools and their Records - October 2011
Compiled by Cliff Webb, who writes in the introduction: 'The records of schools can be useful supplements and substitutes to others for the pursuit of genealogical research, and have considerable value for family history purposes in their own right. This is an attempt to list all educational establishments within the area covered by the ancient county of Surrey, excluding the old London County Council (LCC) area (which are covered by my Index to London Schools and their Records published by Society of Genealogists Enterprises, Ltd), and any records of genealogical interest... Schools were required to keep certain records under various school codes. For example the Elementary School Code, 1903 laid down that all schools should have (a) registers of admission, progress and withdrawal (b) attendance registers and (c) a register of summaries'.155 pages, A5.
(Also published on compact disc as CD25)
Price including UK P&P £10.70