Chapter 26: Special indexes
26.1 Local history material | 26.2 Monumental inscriptions | 26.3 Archive indexes | 26.4 Deeds
26.1 Local history material
There are classified and author catalogues of books and pamphlets (see Section 1 Printed books and pamphlets) which are catalogued according to a modified Dewey classification scheme.
A general information index is available which includes references to newspaper articles, books and pamphlets. Entries for persons, places and subjects are interfiled.
Enquiries: Answers to postal enquiries.
Illustrations: In books and pamphlets (see Section 1 books and pamphlets).
Prints index: Covering photographs and prints and drawings in the prints collection. There is a local classification scheme for prints and cuttings.
Local Acts of Parliament: Chronological list and subject index.
Theatre programmes: Index to twelve scrapbooks containing programmes, 1880's-1939, and 17 volumes of programmes, 1860-1938, in the Theatre Collection. The 17 volumes include concerts, opera and ballet as well as plays. (see Section 9 Special collections).
Broadley Collection: Index to prints and drawings and autographs. (see Section 9 Special collections).
- Christ Church, Down Street, Mayfair: memorial inscriptions, 1971.
- St Anne Soho monumental inscriptions, 1985.
- Mount Street burial ground, St George's Hanover Square, Mount Street Gardens: gravestones, 1931.
- Monumental inscriptions of St James's Chapel and Burial Ground, Hampstead Road [1789-1853]
- St John the Evangelist, Horseferry Road, burial ground monumental inscriptions, 1989.
- St Martin-in-the-Fields: report on graves, 1989, and monumental inscriptions in the church and crypt, 1988.
- Census: street indexes to enumerators' schedules held on microfilm, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 and 1901; surname index to 1851 census for Westminster. 1881 census surname index for England and Wales.
- International Genealogical Index (IGI) [Mormon]: London section only.
- Index to St John's Smith Square marriages 1728-1837, and baptisms 1729-1837.
- Index to St Martin-in-the-Fields burials at Camden Town 1806-1856.
- Ratebooks: street indexes giving ward and parish, date of first appearance in the ratebook, and street name and ward boundary changes.
- St Anne, Soho, vestry minutes, 1695-1742: name, place and subject index.
- St Margaret and St John bastardy depositions, 1711-1752: index to names, places and trades.
- "Westminster Calendar of Wills and Administrations 1504-1858." N.B. that although the jurisdiction of the Royal Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster extended to 1858, nevertheless there are very few wills after c1770.
- "Indexes to the Ancient Testamentary Records of Westminster [1504-1700]."
- archive indexes: personal names and subject and place names indexes.
- Gillow records: Estimate sketch books, 1784-1825: personal, corporate and place names, and furniture indexes; estimate sketch books, 1784-1815 and 1870-1915: making numbers; waste books, 1729-1744: names, places, trades and professions, and furniture.
- Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson, coal merchant's clerk, 1846: subject index, including translations of shorthand notes.
- Letter books of Hastings Nathaniel Middleton, banker, 1816-1821: subject index.
- "Indexes to the Minute Book of the Trustees of Berkeley Square, 1834-1924."
- names, places and trades in calendared deeds (approximately 56,000 entries).
- Middlesex Land Register: index to deeds, 1709-1837 (microfilm; originals are at the London Metropolitan Archives).
