London Court Records

England London  Court Records

Old Bailey Criminal Court
See also: Records of the Old Bailey in London, England

London Sessions
Records of the London Sessions are kept at the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA). Many times these official court records contain additional information, such as the criminal's place of residence (or place crime was committed) that supplement the journalistic Old Bailey Sessions. LMA has prepared information leaflets (available online) to assist in locating these records:


 * My Ancestor Was A Convict
 * Sessions Records for the City of London and Southwark

Some seventeenth-century records have been abstracted:


 * Bowler, Hugh. London Session Records, 1605-1685. Leeds: John Whitehead, 1934..

Peter Wilson Coldham indexed felons who were transported to the American colonies from these records:.

Consistory Court

 * Webb, Cliff. London's Bawdy Courts: Consistory Court, Index to Cases and Depositions (with Birthplaces). London: Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd., c1999. ; digital versino at British Origins (£).

Consistory Court depositions (1586 to 1611) have been published online. Clerks identified many witnesses' birthplaces, residences, ages, and occupations:


 * London Consistory Court Depositions, 1586-1611: list and indexes (1995). Digital version at British History Online.

Manorial Courts
London had many manors. London Manorial Records provides further information.