TheGenealogist has announced that its online collection of Lloyd George Domesday Survey records is now complete for all of the Greater London boroughs, as well as for North Buckinghamshire.
Over 1.6 Million records are now searchable, with 118,437 records in the latest tranche to be released.
This is a key resource for anyone researching London in the Edwardian period.
This latest release completes the IR58 Valuation Record Offices records for London. You can now research into and discover detailed information on the houses your ancestors occupied in the capital between 1910 and 1915.
Mark Bayley, Head of Content for TheGenealogist said: “This is great news for family historians, local historians and those researching house histories. These records are linked to our powerful Map Explorer interface so you can see your ancestor’s home pinned on a contemporary map and discover where they went to work, school, church or even find their local watering hole!”
You can find out more about these records here .
The original IR58 records were collected by the Inland Revenue for their Valuation Office Survey, referred to as the Lloyd George Domesday Survey after the Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer of the time. Safely stored at The National Archives they have been transcribed and digitised by TheGenealogist. The resulting crisp and clear page images of the field books, with details of the surveyors’ reports, are linked to zoomable large scale OS maps used at the time. Each plot on a road is identified on the map; this allows Diamond subscribers of TheGenealogist to find their ancestors’ house location in a street and then explore the neighbourhood.
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Many of the field books in this collection are extremely detailed in the descriptions of the houses and will give the researcher a fascinating insight into the size and the state of repair of the property in which their ancestors had lived.
TheGenealogist now intends to extend this important dataset out into the rest of the country in future releases.
Areas included in the latest release are: Aveley, Banstead, Beddington, Bexley, Carshalton, Cheam, Chipstead & Kingswood, Chislehurst, Church Street North, Church Street South, Cranham, Crayford, Epsom, Erith, Ewell & Cuddington, Hornchurch, Plaistow North, Plaistow South, Stratford, Sutton, Wallington, Walton-on-the-Hill, Woodmansterne.
For more information read the article ‘Snapshot of Edwardian London revealed in Land Tax Records ’.