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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Fw: {not a subscriber} Suggestions for best Archives to visit - 5 questions
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:52:48 +0100
In-Reply-To: <001f01c65bb8$93ee5ce0$6400a8c0@elmac>

In message <001f01c65bb8$93ee5ce0$>, Lin
<> writes
>Forwarded for Howard
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "howard.king" <>
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>Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:03 AM
>Subject: {not a subscriber} Suggestions for best Archives to visit - 5
>questions
>
>
>> Can anyone suggest the best (and most complete) archives to go to in
>> London,
>> to find information on the following 5:
>>
>> 1) Kelly's Street Directories (including small businesses) 1900 - 1940 in
>> the London area.
>>
>> 2) Bankruptcy details - for bankruptcies in the 1020's and 1930's
a+b TNA Kew (assuming it is not really 1020? :-)
>>
>> 3) Murders - unsolved or otherwise.. Probably in the South London area..
>> In
>> the 1910 -1930 period.
Either Newspaper Library at Colindale, or possibly contact Southwark
Archives - someone may have conveniently done a book or thesis about
them.
>>
>> 5) Watchmakers (1700 onwards).

Guildhall Lib. for Clock and Watchmakers Co records. But for any in
1711-1808, the Apprentice tax records at Kew ( ArchiveCD Boooks sell a
CD (called confusingly 'Board of Stamps') of the 1711-50 period, the
most useful since not only the name of the boy and the master but also
the name and 'address' of the father of the apprentice is shown)

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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