London Poor Law records, including births/baptisms and deaths/burials, from London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) have been made available online.
LMA’s Poor Law records are now accessible online at Ancestry.co.uk, and you can read more about them and watch a video clip at the BBC website.
The records available include:
- Admission and discharge books of workhouses;
- Registers of individuals in the infirmary;
- Creed registers;
- School registers;
- Registers of children boarded out or sent to various other institutions;
- Registers of apprentices;
- Registers of lunatics;
- Registers of servants;
- Registers of children;
- Registers of relief to wives and children;
- Registers of inmates;
- Registers of indoor poor;
- Registers of deserted children.
