Chapter 25: Copies of sources held elsewhere

25.1 Regent's Park:
  • 169 documents relating to Regent's Park mainly from the National Archives, 1347-1856. Photocopies.
  • The Revels Ledger from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, USA. Accounts of Sir Thomas Carwardine, Master of the Tentes and Revells, 1550-1554, for entertainments in Marylebone Park. Microfilm.
25.2 Records of Dioceses
  • Bishops' transcripts for Paddington, 1630-1631. Microfilm.
25.3 Records of Institutions
  • The Artizans, Labourers and General Dwellings Company. Board minutes, 1867-1953, Managing Committee minutes, 1914-1954, Block Buildings Committee minutes, 1885-1892, Queen's Park Committee minutes, 1881-1886 and Register of Tenancies, 1884-1964 and other records. Microfilm.
25.4 Records of Military and Armed Bodies
  • The Paddington Rifles. Material based on copies from elsewhere and compiled by J.P. Kelleher, 1982-1991, on the 36th Middlesex (Paddington) Rifles Volunteer Corps, formed in 1860 and known as the Paddington Rifles. In 1879 it became the 18th Middlesex RVC and from 1908 to 1912 it became part of the 10th Battalion, the County of London Regiment (Paddington Rifles). From 1912 it was incorporated into the 3rd (City of London) Battalion, the London Regiment, the Royal Fusiliers.
25.5 Family and Personal Papers and Private Estate Records
  • Middlesex Deeds Register, 1709-1820. Microfilm.
  • Paddington estate of the Bishop of London. Extracts from the indexes of the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Department describing material relating to this estate. Photocopies.
25.6 Electoral Registers
25.7 Local records of central government
  • Bailiffs and coroners for Middlesex. List of, 1594. Photocopy. Original at the London Metropolitan Archives. Acc 47
  • Metropolitan Board of Works. Extracts from minutes re house renumbering and street renaming in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1863-1895. Acc 495
25.8 Records of other public authorities
  • Commission for building fifty new churches in London and Westminster. Minutes, books of works, other papers, 1709-1759. (Indexed). Microfilm. Originals at Lambeth Palace Library.
25.9 Records of courts of law
25.10 Records of dioceses

Archiepiscopal records: Munimenta Antiqua. Special marriage licences issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1766-1891. Transcriptions, Acc 142

Diocesan records: Bishops' register (including the Bishop of Westminster, 1541-1549),1540-1559. Microfilm. Original at the Guildhall Library.

25.11 Parish records

Parish registers:

Rolls Chapel: Baptisms, 1837, 1860-1892; marriages, 1736-1749; burials, 1738-1826. Facsimile. Original at the National Archives PROB 30/21/3/1

St George's Chapel, Mayfair: Marriages, 1729-1731, 1748. Transcription. Harleian Society Registers - volume XV. Originals at the National Archives RG 7

St Margaret, Westminster: Baptisms, 1539-1660; marriages, 1539-1658; burials, 1539-1660. Transcription. A M Burke Memorials of St Margaret's Church, Westminster, 1914. Originals at Westminster Abbey Muniment Room.

St Margaret, Westminster: Baptisms 1661-1675, 1681-1689; marriages,1664-1675, 1682-1699; burials, 1661-1662, 1666-1674. Transcription. Harleian Society - volumes LXIV and LXXXIX. Originals at Westminster Abbey Muniment Room.

St Margaret, Westminster: Baptisms, 1664-1681, 1750-1820 (gaps); marriages, 1664-1681, 1751-1812 (gaps); burials, 1664-1681, 1743-1812 (gaps). Microfilm. Originals at Westminster Abbey Muniment Room.

Somerset House Chapel: Baptisms, 1732-1775; marriages, 1714-1776; burials,1720-1770. A copy of the marriages, baptisms and burials solemnized in the Private Chapel of Somerset House Transcription by J Coleman, 1862. Original at the National Archives RG8/109

Westminster Abbey: Baptisms, 1608-1875; marriages, 1655-1875; burials,1607-1875. Transcription. Harleian Society - Volume X. Originals at Westminster Abbey Muniment Room.

Parish records:

St Margaret, Westminster: Tithe apportionment with map, 1854-1856. Photocopy from the Tithe Redemption Office.

25.12 Manorial records
25.13 Business records
  • Theatres Royal - Covent Garden, Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields. Financial records and diaries, 1715-1849. Microfilm. Originals at the British Library.
25.14 Family and personal papers and private estate records