*
*Tracing Your Roots > Jewish > Jewish Perspectives on UK Record
* Records at the London Metropolitan Archive 
 
The address is:

London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road
London EC1
Email: lma@ms.corpoflondon.gov.uk
Website: *www.cityoflondon.gov.uk and *www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/family-research/index.

Electoral registers for most of London are available. There are also hospital, school and library records, some synagogue records and an old London map collection. They also hold information on the London Jewish community, and some viewing requires prior permission. Information Leaflet No.16, Records of the Anglo-Jewish Community can be downloaded from their website. A list of Jewish material for which prior permission is required for access follows:

  • Board of Deputies of British Jews
  • Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief
  • Federation of Synagogues
  • Food for the Jewish Poor
  • Jewish Bread Meat and Coal Society
  • Jewish Memorial Council
  • Jews' Temporary Shelter
  • New Road Synagogue
  • Office of the Chief Rabbi
  • Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor
  • United Synagogue and its predecessors (includes records of closed synagogues)
  • West London Synagogue
  • Western (Marble Arch) Synagogue
The following archives can be accessed freely:

  • British WIZO (founded in 1918)
  • Jews' Free School (JFS) Admission and Discharge Registers
  • Liberal Jewish Synagogue
  • London School of Jewish Studies (formerly Jews' College)
  • Victoria Club (founded 1901)
  • Westminster Jews' School

Creators: Dr Saul Issroff

 
*