ST ALFEGE - Tracing your ancestors

Tracing your ancestors

If you are researching your family history and wish to look up the baptismal and other registers for St Alfege, you might like to know that all the St Alfege registers are now held at the London Metropolitan Archives.

The covering dates of the registers deposited at the Archives are

  Baptisms 1616-1975
  Marriages 1616-1989
  Burials 1615-1914

Also, registers of confirmations and services, electoral rolls, charities records, inventories, parish magazines and miscellaneous material.

For more details, please refer to the page specific to St Alfege, at www.a2a.org.uk/html/074-p78alf.htm

The contact details for the London Metropolitan Archives are:

40 Northampton Road
London
EC1R 0HB
UK

Tel: +44 20 7332 3820
minicom: +44 20 7278 8703
fax: +44 20 7833 9136
e-mail: ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk
on-line map: www.streetmap.co.uk

Open : Mon, Wed, Fri 9.30-4.45; Tue, Thur 9.30-7.30; limited Saturday openings (see website)
Closed : First two weeks in November. See website for other closures.
Wheelchair access

The London Metropolitan Archives is the largest local government archive repository in the United Kingdom. Its holdings run to over 31 miles of items, including a library of 110,000 books and 40,000 maps and prints. Its collecting policy concentrates on the archives of London institutions including parishes, hospitals, charities and businesses as well as large estates and the public utilities. It holds the archives of the Greater London Council, the London and Middlesex County Councils and their predecessors. Generally appointments are not required although advance notice is sometimes needed for access to normally restricted documents.

Anglican resources for tracing your family history - page on the Church of England web site with more suggestions.

ST ALFEGE CHURCH

Tracing your ancestors