We have just published 32,220 new City of London Burial Index records on findmypast.co.uk

These records will really benefit you if you’re trying to track down your London ancestors.

Further details of these records are as follows:

John Hanson and Monnica Stevens provided findmypast.co.uk with these records. Find out more about this collection in our knowledge base.

Search these records now for your London ancestors.

We’ve been busy this week adding over 40,000 new parish baptism and burial records to findmypast.co.uk

New City of London Burial Index records

We’ve just added 30,596 records for the Spa Fields Burial Ground from the City of London Burial Index to findmypast.co.uk

These records cover the period from March 1778 to March 1810 and takes findmypast.co.uk’s coverage of this site from 1778 up to 1849.

Search these records in our parish burial records collection.

More information about the City of London Burial Index can be found in our knowledge base.

New London docklands parish baptism records

Also this week, we’ve added 10,625 new London docklands parish baptism records to the site. The details of these records are as follows:

St Mary Stratford – 1771-1813 – 1,966 baptisms
St Mary Stratford – 1813-1831 – 1,534 baptisms
St John Wapping – 1707-1734 – 7,125 baptisms

Search our parish baptisms for your London docklands ancestors.

These records were provided by Docklands Ancestors. You can read more about the London docklands records in our knowledge base.

Did anybody see “History Cold Case” on BBC 2 last night? The team were researching a skeleton, found on an archaeological dig in Southwark, of a young woman, who, it transpired, died over 150 years ago.

Amazingly they found a probable identification for her: Elizabeth Mitchell, who died at St Thomas Hospital on 22 August 1851, aged 19. You can see her listed in the City of London Burial Index. Watch last night’s programme. Find out more about the City of London Burial Index in our knowledge base.