Over 17,000 baptisms for the East London parish of St Mary, Whitechapel, for the period 1775-1792, have just been added to our Parish Records Collection.

There are now a total of over 407,000 baptism records for London’s dockland areas. Find out which parishes and years are covered.

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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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