We’ve just published 16,696 new London Docklands baptism records on findmypast.co.uk – excellent news for all of you with Docklands ancestors.

Further details of these baptism records are as follows:

St Dunstan, Stepney: 10,035 baptism entries spanning 1668-1679
Christchurch, Spitalfields: 6,661 baptism entries spanning 1843-1875

This brings the total amount of London docklands baptisms on findmypast.co.uk to 535,210. You can find full details of the coverage of these records in our knowledge base.

We are working on this ongoing project in association with Docklands Ancestors and will be publishing further updates in the coming months. Find out more about this project

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You can now search 14,803 new London docklands parish baptism records on findmypast.co.uk

These records pre-date civil registration (the introduction of the compulsory registration of births, deaths, and marriages in 1837) which makes them especially useful when trying to find your otherwise potentially untraceable ancestors.

More details about these records are as follows:

This brings the total amount of London docklands baptism records on findmypast.co.uk to 518,514. You can find full details of the coverage of these records in our knowledge base.

We are working on this ongoing project in association with Docklands Ancestors and you can expect to see more updates soon. Find out more about this project.

Search for your London ancestors now in the London docklands baptisms records.

We have just updated our London docklands parish baptisms collection with 22,645 new records.

This brings the total amount of London docklands baptisms on findmypast.co.uk to 503,711. You can find full details of the coverage of these records in our knowledge base.

Here is a breakdown of these new records:

We are working on this ongoing project in association with Docklands Ancestors and you can expect to see more updates in the coming months. Find out more about this project here.

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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.

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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

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

We have just added 15,590 new parish baptism records for St John Wapping, provided by Docklands Ancestors. See the table below for a breakdown of the new records:

This means that you can now find 32,671 records for Wapping and a total of 423,148 records of baptisms for the London docklands area on our site. We will be adding plenty more new records in the coming months so make sure you keep visiting the site for updates.

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We’ve just added over 44,000 new baptisms for London’s docklands to our Parish Records Collection. These new additions, released in partnership with Docklands Ancestors, date from 1770 through to 1880 and are invaluable to anyone tracing their east London roots.

The people included in these new records are a diverse mix. Among them you will find many professions associated with the docks including watermen and lightermen, stevedores and dock labourers, clerks, carmen, customs officials and crane drivers.

The parishes and years covered by the new records are:

St Dunstan Stepney 1770-1798
St Mary Whitechapel 1758-1774
St Anne Limehouse 1854-1877
Christ Church Stepney 1842-1860
All Saints Mile End 1840-1880

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23 million parish records

Our baptisms for London’s docklands form just a small part of one of the largest online repositories of parish records. The findmypast.com Parish Records Collection holds over 23 million baptisms, marriages, and burials dating from 1538.

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