London Lives

[Mary from Italy]

Very interesting new site here for anyone with London ancestors:

http://www.londonlives.org

[ElizabethHerts]

Many thanks, Mary, I got an immediate hit!

[kiterunner]

Oh, that's brilliant, Mary, thanks so much. I think it may have demolished my Buie brick wall!

[Mary from Italy]

Would Marylebone have come under Westminster? I've found one of my people who lived in Marylebone paying income tax, but he isn't in the Westminster pollbooks or ratebooks.

[samesizedfeet]

WOW!!! They have the inquest into the death of my Robert Benson who threw himself from the top of a building in Covent Garden.

Struggling to read it but WOW!! again.

Can you download the documents?

[Mary from Italy]

I think you will be able to eventually. They seem to be saying that some images are already online (although I haven't found any yet) and some will be added later. It's not very clear, though.

http://www.londonlives.org/static/Project.jsp

[Mary from Italy]

I've just had a look at your Benson page, and the image is there; just right-click on it and copy to clipboard, then you can paste it into Microsoft Paint or a similar program, and save as a jpg.

[kiterunner]

Ooer, I think I've found my 4xg-grandfather being tried for assault, but thankfully the jury found him not guilty.

[Margaret in Burton]

*ugger

Too early for my Rust family, they were in Norfolk then.

[ElizabethHerts]

*ugger

Too early for my Rust family, they were in Norfolk then.

Too early for some of mine too, Marg. :(