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1939 Register
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Census records
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Wills 1384-1858
Recommended guideKeywords: deathsprerogative court of canterburyprobatewills All records viewable online - Adoptions
Keywords: adoptionsbirths - Available on:Alien arrivals
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)immigration All records viewable online - Available on:Alien entry books
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)migrationnaturalisation All records viewable online - Aliens’ registration cards 1918-1957
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)british citizenshipimmigrationnaturalisationpassengers All records viewable online - American and West Indian colonies before 1782
Keywords: americacaribbeancoloniesstate papers - Apprentices and masters
Keywords: apprenticeshiplabour historymaster craftsmen and tradesmentradesmen - Armed forces records held by other archives
Keywords: armybritish armyroyal air forceroyal navysoldierwars - Army regiments
Keywords: armybritish armyregiments and corps - Art and artists
Keywords: art and artists - Bankrupts and insolvent debtors
Keywords: bankruptsdebtorsinsolvencyprisons and prisoners - Births, marriages and deaths at sea or abroad
Keywords: birthscoloniesdeathsmarriagesmerchant navyshipping - Births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales
Keywords: baptismsbirthsdeathsmarriages - Births, marriages and deaths in Scotland and Ireland
Keywords: birthsdeathsirelandmarriagesscotland - Births, marriages and deaths in the armed forces
Keywords: armybirthsbritish armydeathsmarriagesnavyroyal air forceroyal marinesroyal navy - Births, marriages and deaths in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man
Keywords: birthsdeathsmarriages - Available on:British Army casualty lists 1939-1945
Keywords: british armydeathssecond world warsoldierworld war two All records viewable online - British Army medal index cards 1914-1920
Keywords: armybritish armycampaign medalsfirst world wargallantry medalsmedalsofficers (army) All records viewable online - British Army muster rolls and pay lists c.1730-1898
Keywords: armybritish armymuster rollsregiments and corpssoldier - British Army nurses
Keywords: armybritish armynurses - British Army nurses’ service records 1914-1918
Keywords: armybritish armyfirst world warnurseswomen's military service All records viewable online - British Army officers of the First World War
Keywords: armybritish armyfirst world warmedalsofficers (army)soldierworld war oneworld war two - British Army officers up to 1913
Keywords: armyawardsbritish armymedalsofficers (army)soldier - British Army operations after 1945
Keywords: armybritish armyregiments and corpswar diaries - British Army operations in the Second World War
Keywords: armybritish armyregiments and corpssecond world warwar diariesworld war two - British Army operations up to 1913
Keywords: armyboer warbritish armycrimean warnapoleonic warsregiments and corps - British Army soldiers of the First World War
Keywords: armybritish armyfirst world warnon-commissioned officersoldier - British Army soldiers up to 1913
Keywords: armybritish armypensionssoldier - British Army war diaries 1914-1922
Keywords: armybritish armyfirst world warregimentswar diaries All records viewable online - British military campaign and service medals
Keywords: armyawardsbritish armycampaign medalsmedalsofficers (army) - British military gallantry medals
Keywords: armybritish armygallantry medalshonoursmedals - British prisoners of the First World War and previous wars since c.1790
Keywords: first world warprisoners of warworld war one - British prisoners of the Second World War and the Korean War
Keywords: korean warprisoners of warsecond world war personnelworld war two - Catholics
Keywords: burialscatholicsrecusants catholicreligious history - Changes of name
Keywords: changes of namedeeds pollsupreme court - Children’s homes
Keywords: borstalschildren's homes - Civil or crown servants
Keywords: civil servantscrown servantsgovernment employeesroyal household - Civilian gallantry medals, honours and other awards
Keywords: civilian gallantrygallantry medalshonoursmedals - Coastguard officers
Keywords: coastguard - Coastguard records
Keywords: coastguardcustoms (tax)pensionsshipping - Companies and businesses
Keywords: business historycompanies and businessesindustrylabour history - Company and business history records held by other archives
Keywords: business historycompanies and businessesindustrylabour historytrade and industry - Conscientious objectors
Keywords: conscientious objectorsfirst world warsecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Coroners’ inquests
Keywords: coronersdeathsinqueststrials - Country court death duty registers 1796-1811
Keywords: administrations of probatedeath duties (tax)legacies (probate)probatewills All records viewable online - Court of King’s Bench (Crown Side) and King’s/Queen’s Bench Division cases 1675-1988
Keywords: courts of lawkings bench (court of)law and ordertrials - Courts martial and desertion in the British Army 17th-20th centuries
Keywords: armybritish armycourts martialdeserters (armed forces)first world warsecond world warsoldierworld war oneworld war two - Crew lists and agreements and log books of merchant ships 1747-1860
Keywords: crew listslog books (ships)merchant navyshipping - Crew lists and agreements and log books of merchant ships after 1861
Keywords: crew listslog books (ships)merchant navyshipping - Criminal and civil trials in the Welsh assize courts 1831-1971 – key to records
Keywords: assize courtscivil litigationcourts of lawcrime and criminalstrials - Criminal courts in England and Wales from 1972
Keywords: central criminal courtcourts of lawcrime and criminalscrown courtsmagistrates' courtsold baileytrials - Criminal transportation
Keywords: australia (transportation to)convictscrime and criminalsprisons and prisonerstransportation (punishment) - Criminal trials in the assize courts 1559-1971
Keywords: assize courtscourts of lawcrime and criminalstrials - Criminals and convicts
Keywords: central criminal courtconvictscourts of lawcrime and criminalsold baileytrials - Customs officers
Keywords: customs (tax)inland revenue - Death duties 1796-1903
Keywords: administrations of probatedeath duties (tax)deathsduties and taxeslegacies (probate)probatetaxes and dutieswills - Deaths in the First and Second World Wars
Keywords: casualties of wardeathsfirst world warsecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Disability and dependents’ pensions in the First World War
Keywords: disability pensionsfirst world warpensionsworld war one - Divorce
Keywords: annulment of marriagecourts of lawdivorce - Doctors and nurses
Keywords: doctorshospitalsmedical servicesnursespatients in hospital - Durham Home Guard 1939-1945
Keywords: home fronthome guardsecond world warworld war two All records viewable online - Electoral registration
Keywords: electoral registers - Elementary and primary schools
Keywords: datasetseducation historypoor lawsschools - Emigration and emigrants
Keywords: america (emigration to)australia (emigration to)canada (emigration to)emigrationnew zealand (emigration to) - Evacuees
Keywords: evacuationhome frontsecond world warworld war two - Excise and Inland Revenue officers
Keywords: excise (tax)inland revenue - Fleet Air Arm personnel
Keywords: fleet air armnavyroyal navy - Home Guard personnel
Keywords: home fronthome guardsecond world warworld war two - Hospitals
Keywords: hospitalsmedical services - Household Cavalry soldiers’ service records 1799-1920
Keywords: armybritish armycavalryfirst world warworld war one All records viewable online - Houses
Keywords: architecturebuildingshousestitle deeds - Immigration and immigrants
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)british citizenshipimmigrationnaturalisationpassengers - Indian Army personnel
Keywords: armyfirst world warindian armysecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Indian indentured labourers
Keywords: indentured labourindian indentured labourlabour history - Inquisitions post mortem: land ownership and inheritance in the medieval and early modern periods
Keywords: inquisitions post mortemland ownership - Intelligence and security services
Keywords: espionageintelligence and security servicesmi5 and mi6security servicesspecial operations executive - Internees
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)first world warinterneesprisoners of warsecond world war - Jews and Jewish communities in the 18th-20th centuries
Keywords: anglo jewish historyemigrationimmigrationjewish history - Land and property ownership: conveyances by feet of fines 1182-1833
Keywords: conveyance of landdeeds (property ownership)fines (land conveyances)landland ownership - Land inheritance in the Court of Wards and Liveries 1540-1645
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawdeeds (property ownership)landland ownershipwards and liveries (court of) - Lawyers
Keywords: attorneysbarristerslawyerssolicitors - Lawyers: further research
Keywords: attorneysbarristerslawyerssolicitors - Living people
Keywords: electoral registersliving peoplemissing people - London Metropolitan Police
Keywords: metropolitan policepolice - Lunatic asylums, psychiatric hospitals and mental health
Keywords: asylums (hospitals)hospitalslunatic asylumsmental health - Manorial documents and lordships and how to use the Manorial Documents Register
Keywords: land ownershipmanorial documents registermanors - Manors
Keywords: land ownershipmanors - Manors: further research
Keywords: landmanorsmaps - Available on:Maritime births 1867-1960
Keywords: birthsmerchant navypassengers All records viewable online - Available on:Maritime deaths 1781-1968
Keywords: deathsmerchant navypassengers All records viewable online - Available on:Maritime marriages 1854-1972
Keywords: marriagesmerchant navypassengers All records viewable online - Medieval and early modern family history
Keywords: early modern periodmedieval period - Medieval and early modern soldiers
Keywords: armybritish armyearly modern periodmedieval periodofficers (army)soldier - Merchant seamen of the First World War
Keywords: apprenticeshipcrew listsfirst world warmerchant navyworld war one - Available on:Merchant seamen registers 1835-1857
Keywords: merchant navy All records viewable online - Available on:Merchant seamen registers 1918-1941
Keywords: merchant navy All records viewable online - Merchant seamen serving since 1918
Keywords: crew listsmerchant navysecond world warworld war two - Merchant seamen serving up to 1857: further research
Keywords: merchant navy - Merchant seamen serving up to 1913
Keywords: apprenticeshipcrew listsmerchant navy - Merchant seamen’s campaign medal records 1914-1918
Keywords: awardsbritish war medalcampaign medalsfirst world warhonoursmedalsmercantile marine medalmerchant navysilver war badge All records viewable online - Merchant seamen’s campaign medal records 1939-1945
Keywords: campaign medalsmedalsmerchant navynavysecond world warworld war two All records viewable online - Merchant seamen’s medals and honours
Keywords: awardscampaign medalsgallantry medalshonoursmedalsmerchant navy - Middlesex military service appeal tribunal 1916-1918
Keywords: conscientious objectorsconscriptionfirst world warworld war one All records viewable online - Military nursing
Keywords: armynavynursesroyal air forceroyal navywomen's military service - Militia
Keywords: armybritish armymedalsmilitiapensionssoldiervolunteer soldiers - National Farm Survey of England and Wales 1941-1943
Keywords: agriculturedatasetsfarms and farmingmapsnational farm surveystatistics - Naturalisation case papers 1801-1871
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)british citizenshipimmigrationnaturalisation All records viewable online - Naturalisation, registration and British citizenship
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)british citizenshipcertificates of british citizenshipimmigrationnaturalisation - Newspapers
Keywords: newspaperspress - Available on:Nonconformist and non-parish births, marriages and deaths 1567-1969
Keywords: baptismsbirthsdeathsmarriagesnonconformists All records viewable online - Nonconformists
Keywords: baptismsbirthsdeathsmarriagesnonconformistsreligious history - Officers in the Merchant Navy
Keywords: crew listsmerchant navyofficers merchant navy - Available on:Passenger lists
Keywords: emigrationimmigrationpassengersshipping All records viewable online - Passengers
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)passengers - Passports
Keywords: british citizenshipemigrationimmigrationnaturalisationpassport - People in business and trades
Keywords: business historyindustrylabour historytrade and industrytradesmen - Police
Keywords: metropolitan policepoliceroyal irish constabularytransport police - Prisoner of war interview reports 1914-1918
Keywords: first world warprisoners of warworld war one All records viewable online - Prisoners and prison staff
Keywords: convictscrime and criminalslaw and orderprisons and prisoners - Prisons
Keywords: convictscrime and criminalslaw and orderprisons and prisoners - Available on:Railway employment records 1833-1956
Keywords: railways All records viewable online - Railway workers
Keywords: railwaystrains - Railways
Keywords: railwaystrains - Recommendations for military honours and awards 1935-1990
Keywords: armyawardsgallantry medalshonoursmedalssecond world warworld war two All records viewable online - Refugees
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)immigrationjewish historyminoritiesrefugees - Available on:Royal Air Force airmen service records 1912-1939
Keywords: All records viewable online - Royal Air Force combat reports 1939-1945
Keywords: combat reports (raf)royal air forcesecond world warsquadrons (royal air force)world war two All records viewable online - Royal Air Force nurses
Keywords: nursesroyal air forcewomen's military service - Royal Air Force officers’ service records 1918-1919
Keywords: first world warofficers (air forces)rafroyal air forceworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Air Force operations
Keywords: combat reports (raf)first world warrafroyal air forceroyal flying corpsroyal naval air servicesecond world warsquadrons (royal air force)world war oneworld war two - Royal Air Force operations record books 1939-1945
Keywords: rafroyal air forcesecond world warsquadrons (royal air force)world war two All records viewable online - Royal Air Force personnel
Keywords: campaign medalscourts martialprisoners of warrafroyal air force - Royal Air Force squadrons
Keywords: rafroyal air forcesquadrons (royal air force) - Royal Flying Corps airmen
Keywords: royal flying corps All records viewable online - Royal Flying Corps officers
Keywords: officers (air forces)royal flying corps - Royal Household and Wardrobe
Keywords: crown servantsroyal householdroyal servantsroyal warrant holderstradesmen - Royal Irish Constabulary
Keywords: irelandpoliceroyal irish constabulary - Royal Marines officers
Keywords: first world warofficers (royal marines)royal marinesworld war one - Royal Marines other ranks
Keywords: first world warroyal marinesworld war one - Royal Marines’ service records 1842-1925
Keywords: first world warroyal marinesworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Naval Air Service officers
Keywords: first world warofficers (air forces)royal naval air serviceworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Naval Air Service ratings
Keywords: first world warroyal naval air serviceworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Naval Division personnel
Keywords: first world warroyal naval divisionroyal navyworld war one - Royal Naval Division service records 1914-1919
Keywords: first world warroyal naval divisionroyal navyworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Naval dockyard staff
Keywords: dockyardnavyroyal navy - Royal Naval Reserve officers’ service records 1862-1964
Keywords: first world warnavyroyal naval reserveroyal navyworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Naval Reserve personnel
Keywords: first world warnavyroyal naval reserveworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Naval Reserve service records 1860-1955
Keywords: first world warroyal naval reserveroyal navyworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel
Keywords: first world warnavyroyal naval volunteer reserveworld war one - Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve service records 1903-1922
Keywords: first world warroyal naval volunteer reserveroyal navyworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Navy commissioned and warrant officers: further research
Keywords: courts martialnavyofficers (royal navy)royal navy - Royal Navy commissioned officers
Keywords: first world warnavyofficers (royal navy)royal navywarrant officersworld war one - Royal Navy nurses
Keywords: navynursesroyal navywomen's military service - Royal Navy officers’ pensions
Keywords: first world warnavyofficers (royal navy)pensionsroyal navy - Royal Navy officers’ service record cards and files c.1840-c.1920
Keywords: first world warnavyofficers (royal navy)royal navyworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Navy officers’ service records 1756-1931
Keywords: first world warnavyofficers (royal navy)pensionsroyal navywarrant officersworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Navy operations and correspondence 1660-1914
Keywords: admiraltynavyroyal navy - Royal Navy operations in the First World War
Keywords: admiraltyfirst world warnavyroyal navyworld war one - Royal Navy operations in the Second World War
Keywords: admiraltynavyroyal navysecond world war - Royal Navy ratings enlisted after 1918
Keywords: campaign medalsmedalsnavyroyal navysecond world warworld war two - Royal Navy ratings of the First World War
Keywords: first world warmedalsnavyroyal navyworld war one - Royal Navy ratings up to 1913
Keywords: medalsnavyroyal navy - Royal Navy ratings’ pensions 17th-20th centuries
Keywords: first world warnavypensionsroyal navyworld war one - Royal Navy ratings’ service records 1853-1928
Keywords: first world warnavyroyal navyworld war one All records viewable online - Royal Navy ratings: further research
Keywords: navyroyal navy - Royal Navy unpaid pensions 1830-1860: claims by next of kin
Keywords: pensionsroyal navy All records viewable online - Royal Navy warrant officers
Keywords: navyofficers (royal navy)royal navywarrant officers - Schools
Keywords: education historyschools - Secondary schools
Keywords: datasetseducation historyschools - Sexuality and gender identity history
Keywords: gay and lesbian historylesbian and gay historylgbtlgbtq - Ships wrecked or sunk
Keywords: merchant navyroyal navyshipping - Slavery or slave owners
Keywords: abolition of slaverybritish empirecaribbeancoloniesslavery - Soldiers in African forces under British control
Keywords: armybritish armybritish empirecolonieswars - Teacher training
Keywords: educational historyschoolsteachers - Teachers and pupils
Keywords: educational historyschoolsteachers - Technical colleges and further education
Keywords: collegeseducational historyuniversities - Tithes
Keywords: land ownershipmapstaxationtithes - Volunteers and Territorials
Keywords: armybritish armyhome frontmilitiaofficers (army)regiments and corpssoldierterritorial armyvolunteer soldiers - Wills and probate before 1858: further research
Keywords: deathsprerogative court of canterburyprobatewills - Wills of Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel 1786-1882
Keywords: officers (royal navy)probateroyal navywarrant officerswills All records viewable online - Wills or administrations after 1858
Keywords: administrations of probatedeath duties (tax)prerogative court of canterburyprobatewills - Wills or administrations before 1858
Keywords: administrations of probatedeathsprobatewills - Women in the British Army
Keywords: armyfirst world warsoldierwomen's military service - Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps service records 1917-1920
Keywords: armyfirst world warwomen's military service All records viewable online - Women’s Land Army
Keywords: home frontland girlssecond world warwomen's land army - Women’s Royal Air Force personnel
Keywords: first world warroyal air forcewomen's military service - Women’s Royal Air Force service records 1918-1920
Keywords: royal air forcewomen's military service All records viewable online - Women’s Royal Naval Service personnel
Keywords: first world warroyal navywomen's military service All records viewable online - Women’s Royal Naval service records 1917-1919
Keywords: first world warwomen's royal naval serviceworld war one All records viewable online - Workhouse inmates and staff
Keywords: pauperspoor lawsworkhouses - Workhouses
Keywords: pauperspoor lawsworkhouses
