Sacramental Registers
We hold a small selection of baptism, marriage, confirmation and death registers mostly dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. These include registers from parish churches, embassy chapels and registers kept by individual priests. A detailed list is available here.
If you are unable to find the register you need in this list or by searching our online catalogue, the likelihood is that it is still held in the parish church. Look here for more information.
Finding sacramental records relating to your ancestors can be a time consuming process. It becomes easier if you can find out the area in which they lived at the time e.g. parish, street, registration district and a rough idea of the date it took place before starting your research at Westminster Diocesan Archives. To do this, you can use census records or order birth, marriage or death certificates.
For more information about the contents of these records, please see our guide available here
For any other records relating to your family history, the best places to start are the research guides provided by The National Archives here, and the local history centre covering the area they would have lived in -a list for London is available on the GENUKI website here
