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London Metropolitan Archives

SAINT OLAVE, BERMONDSEY: TOOLEY STREET, SOUTHWARK


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 P71/OLA

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT OLAVE, BERMONDSEY: TOOLEY STREET, SOUTHWARK

Date(s): 1582-1949

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.59 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Parish of St Olave, Bermondsey | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This parish was originally part of Southwark, but in 1900 when the metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey was formed the parish became part of Bermondsey. The parish was united with St John Horselydown in 1918 and the church was closed in 1921.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Olave, Bermondsey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; register of apprentices; and register of settlement and bastardy examinations, minutes books, financial records, papers and correspondence relating to Flemish Burial Ground and closure of site.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records have been sorted into categories which reflect divisions between the different functions and operations of the parish and its administration. Order within these categories reflects chronology.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright for these records rests with the depositor.

Physical characteristics:

Fit.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in multiple accessions between 1953 and 1997.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: March to April 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Banns register | Marriage records | Documents | Information sources
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Bastardy examination | Bastardy records | Documents | Information sources
Burial registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church of England | Anglicanism | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Ecclesiastical parishes | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Poor law apprenticeships | Apprenticeship | Training methods
Settlement examinations | Settlement records | Documents | Information sources
Burial records
Catholicism
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of St Olave | Bermondsey | Church of England

Places
Bermondsey | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Southwark