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2. Principal Libraries with Family History resources
Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre
Lewisham Library (2nd Floor)
199-201 Lewisham High Street
London
SE13 6LG
Tel:
020 8297 0682
Fax: 020 8297 1169
Email: local.studies@lewisham.gov.uk
Opening hours:
Monday: 1000-1700
Tuesday: 0900-2000
Wednesday: closed
Thursday: 0900-2000
Friday: 0900-1700
Saturday: 0900-1700
Readers are advised to make an appointment, particularly to use microfilm or archives. It may not be possible for archives and other material on closed access to be produced from 12 to 2 pm or after 5 pm.
Stocktaking closure: normally the first two weeks in December.
Other Libraries:
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3. Research Service
Service available?
No
Fee-based?
-
Provided by local Record Office?
No
4. Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registrar General's Indexes from 1837 (microform), or Registrar General for Scotland's Computerised Index from 1855.
Locations
None
5. Census returns
Lewisham 1841-1901
Great Britain 1881 (CD-Rom)
London: 1841-1901
6. Directories
6(a) County and Regional Directories
Holden's London Directory 1811
Pigots Directory (London etc.): 1834
Pigot's Directory, Kent: 1839
Bagshaw's
Directory, Kent 1839
Bagshaw's Directory, Kent 1847
London Suburban Court Guide: 1861
London
Suburban Court Guide, 1861
London southern suburbs: 1884, 1894, 1912
London and County suburbs:
1914-1916
Kelly's Post Office London Directory: 1926-1987 (gaps)
6(b) City and Town Directories
Photocopies of Forest Hill and Sydenham entries, various directories: 1852-1898 (gaps)
Blackheath, Lee, Lewisham and Greenwich:
1886-1898 (gaps)
Blackheath, Lee, Greenwich and Eltham 1899-1937
Sydenham,
Norwood and Streatham 1908
6(c) Telephone Directories
London residential 1975-1990 (selection)
7. Electoral registers and polls books
7(a) Electoral Registers
Metropolitan Borough of Deptford: 1924, 1930-1964
Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham: 1955-1964
London Borough of Lewisham: 1965 to date
The following electoral registers are held at Lewisham Town Hall (contact
Janet Mould, Records Section: 0181-314-3963):
Parish and Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham: 1891-1965
Metropolitan Borough of Deptford: 1920-1964 (gaps)
7(b) Poll Books
Kent: 1734, 1754, 1790, 1802, 1804
West Kent: 1835, 1837, 1847, 1852, 1857, 1859, 1865
8. International Genealogical Index (IGI)
1988 edition. Microfiche
9. Unpublished Indexes
Index to deposited archives
Index of inhabitants of Blackheath 1691-1920
A number of other indexes, including inhabitants of Deptford in 1745, and indexes to various Lewisham records, particularly for the 18th and early 19th centuries (KW series).
For details please ask at the Local Studies Centre.
10. Parish Registers
Original registers (some also microfilmed) for Lee and Lewisham. Some microfilm for Deptford. Some indexes
11. Periodicals (excl. newspapers)
Journal, North West Kent Family History Society
12. Published Transcripts of Archival Material
Parish registers (incomplete): Deptford, Lee, Lewisham
13. Other material
Archives, including civil parish records, nonconformist records, and deposited records of local organisations.
Monumental inscriptions
14. Guides to Collections
Guide to London Local History Resources (Lewisham) �1.25 +p&p
Sources for Family History �1.00 +p&p
15. Local Record Offices
Lewisham Local Studies and Archives
Lewisham Library
199-201 Lewisham High Street
London
SE13 6LG
Tel:
0208 297 0682
Fax: 0208 297 1169
Email: local.studies@lewisham.gov.uk
London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road
London
EC1R 0AB
Tel:
0207 332 3820
Centre for Kentish Studies
Other information
Our family history society is the North West Kent
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