Jeffries Family History

• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Family Tree
• Surnames
• Reports
• Places
• Occupations

 

• Stories
• Narratives
• Photographs
• Certs & Docs
• Census
• Links
• Acknowledge
• Amendments

• London Introduction
  • Woolwich Introduction
    • Woolwich Common
    • Garrison Church
    • Old Cemetery
    • RA Barracks
    • Maps / Views
  • Other London Places
    • Maps / Views
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• Main Places Menu

 

London (Middlesex & Kent)

Introduction

This section looks at the following ancestral places -

     Limehouse

     Plumstead

     Poplar

     Shadwell

     Stepney

     Whitechapel

     Woolwich

Until the formation of the London County Council in 1889, all of the above places were outside of London.

Limehouse, Poplar, Shadwell, Stepney and Whitechapel were in Middlesex.  They are now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.  The name Tower Hamlets, however, appears on pre-1889 censuses as a Paliamentary Borough or a Municipal Borough.

Woolwich and Plumstead were in Kent and merged together to form the Borough of Woolwich.  Both Woolwich and Plumstead are now part of the London Borough of Greenwich.