Family History

Information Leaflets

The guides provide information on sources in the collection. They also offer advice on where you can find further information if the records are not held at Westminster Archives Centre.

• Civil registration districts
• Cemetery registers : a complete list of cemeteries and crematoria used by the City of Westminster, and the location of their registers
• Census : pre-1841 censuses and lists of inhabitants (includes parish lists of ratepayers and householders, and volunteers for military service)
• Coroners’ records
• Electoral registers and poll books
• Marriage licences and allegations
• Monumental inscriptions
• Non-Conformist registers
• Parish registers : a list of the Anglican parish registers deposited at the City of Westminster Archives Centre
• Parish registers not held at Westminster City Archives
• Poor Law : location of Westminster’s Workhouses and Infirmaries
• Poor Law records
• Roman Catholic registers
• Wills and probate records
• Historical notes on Westminster Schools