These items are designed to assist the researcher by providing location lists and guides to documents, classifying material, maps and
other ideas which will help the genealogist in his task.
Please note: although a number of items in the RESEARCH AIDS SERIES cover London, Middlesex and Metropolitan Surrey, we are NOT able to offer
help with research in these areas.
The appropriate society for the area should be approached.
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RA 2
Suburban London - Map showing Parish Boundaries in London before 1837 - 3rd edition completely revised
This item complements the county parish maps produced by the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, Canterbury. The main use is in planning a search pattern if an ancestor does not turn up in the expected parish.
£2.55
RA 3
Registration Districts in Surrey and Rural Middlesex, 1850
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 3
Guide to Genealogical Research in Victorian London
by Cliff Webb (8th edition November reprinted with minor amendments 2009).
Our most popular item! Shows how to reduce the cost of searching for Victorian London ancestors, with a list of parishes and registers for the London area outside the City, created before 1870, and a map of parish boundaries c.1870. The latest edition, as well as showing the latest register deposits, has an appendix making it easier to locate churches in smaller districts and also lists the Boroughs in which the Parishes and Registration Districts lie.
£4.05
RA 7
Surrey Inhabitants Lists
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 7
This is a companion to RA6, listing streets, and indicating which Victorian parish they were located in. This makes it possible to search in parish registers in a more structured manner, if a street address is known.
£5.50
RA 9
Guide to the Surrey Censuses 1871,1881, 1891 and 1901
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 9
Guide to Genealogical Research in Late Victorian and Edwardian London - Revised 5th edition, November 2004
This is a supplement to RA6, listing parishes founded in the 1870-1903 period. It also covers a wider area than RA6, extending to the whole of the old LCC district, and listing those outer parishes in the same way as RA6 does for the inner ones. It also has a map of parish boundaries for 1903. This new edition also includes a new appendix designed to help one locate churches which fell within districts smaller than Registration Districts in size.
£4.05
RA 17
Parishes and Periods in the Surrey IGI
Now available online. Click here to view or print RA 17
The Monumental Inscriptions of Surrey: A List of Copies
Compiled by Tim Wilcock.
This lists all known copies of Surrey MIs and the places where they may be found. The survey will, hopefully, not only prove useful in itself, but encourage us to complete the recording of our remaining uncopied inscriptions, before they succumb to the English climate and atmosphere!
£2.80
RA 29
A List of Surrey Directories and their Locations
Listing those directories up to 1950 and where copies are known to be held.
£3.55
RA 30
Streets, Parishes and Wards of the City of London
Complementing RA8 by providing a guide to the streets, courts and alleyways which comprised the City of London in the Victorian era.
£5.25
RA 31
London, Middlesex and Surrey Workhouse Records - A Guide to their Nature and Location
Listing the Unions of the various Boards of Guardians with the dates of formation. The known surviving records are listed with closure periods for each area. Maps showing the coverage of the Unions are included.
£3.05
RA 32
A Guide to Surrey Genealogy and Records - Revised second edition
A list of the basic records of the county and indexes to them that may exist. Manuscript and typescript works are also listed.
£4.05
RA 33
A Guide to Middlesex Parish Documents Including Poor Law Records by Cliff Webb
This completely revised 5th edition, November 2004, incorporates The Parochial Poor Law Records of Middlesex as preserved in local libraries and record offices compiled and published by Cliff Webb in 1986. The records listed include registers, churchwardens accounts, vestry minutes, overseers of the poor, etc.
£4.05
RA 36
A Guide to London and Middlesex Genealogy and Records - 6th edition, March 2007
By Cliff Webb.
This new edition has been expanded to include references to websites and URLs as well as the sources included in the previous editions of this Guide. A5
£6.50
RA 37
Middlesex Directories - A Finding List - 2nd edition, 1998
A guide to the location of those directories that are known to have survived.
£3.75
RA 38
A Guide to London and Middlesex Manorial Records - 2nd edition, September 2006
Compiled by Cliff Webb.
Completely revised and updated, this edition runs to another 20 pages of information. 36 pages, A5.
£4.05
RA 39
A List of Books and Articles about London, Middlesex and Metropolitan Surrey Places - 3rd edition 2006
A companion volume to RA36, compiled by Cliff Webb who writes in the introduction: 'It is already extremely difficult for a researcher to know what has been written about his subject and area'. Nobody can know from the title that 'The Best of All Possible Worlds' describes a childhood in Streatham. Where I have been able to identify them, I have given in square brackets a brief description of some of the books concerned'. A5, 84 pages.
£6.50
RA 41
Surrey Parishes pre-1837 MAP
Map showing the parish boundaries and the contiguous parishes at the county boundaries.
£2.55
RA 42
A Guide to Surrey Parish Documents
A list by parish, showing where the records, including registers, churchwardens accounts, vestry minutes, overseers of the poor, etc. exist and can be found.
This supercedes RA4, RA16 and RA27 which are now out of print.
£4.05
RA 48
A List of Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions
By Cliff Webb.
Monumental inscriptions are, of course, a very valuable source for genealogists. Many copies, made in the past, preserve information from tombstones no longer standing, or if standing, no longer legible. When modern surveys of churches and churchyards are made and published, it is not always clear whether the compilers have utilized and cross-checked with older copies. For this reason in this list, I have included all copies that I can find, except where it is clear that the copy is of a published edition.
£2.55
RA 57
A Guide to Surrey Schools and their Records - October 2011
Compiled by Cliff Webb, who writes in the introduction: 'The records of schools can be useful supplements and substitutes to others for the pursuit of genealogical research, and have considerable value for family history purposes in their own right. This is an attempt to list all educational establishments within the area covered by the ancient county of Surrey, excluding the old London County Council (LCC) area (which are covered by my Index to London Schools and their Records published by Society of Genealogists Enterprises, Ltd), and any records of genealogical interest... Schools were required to keep certain records under various school codes. For example the Elementary School Code, 1903 laid down that all schools should have (a) registers of admission, progress and withdrawal (b) attendance registers and (c) a register of summaries'.
155 pages, A5.
(Also published on compact disc as CD25)