British Lying In Hospital, Endell Street, Middlesex Genealogy

Endell Street British Lying in Hospital, Holborn is one of four "Lying in hospitals" in the Greater London region. British Lying In Hospital, Endell Street, Holborn was founded in 1749 for married women only. It closed in 1913. Registers of birth and baptism 1749 - 1868 are held in the PRO at Kew. The LMA has a delivery book 1856 - 1860 and case books 1905 - 1909. The Family History Library has microfilmed these registers.

These hospitals were principally intended for the "wives of poor industrious Tradesmen or distressed House-keepers" and the wives of soldiers and sailors.