Plague death records
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:04 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8257934.stm
Details of those who died from the bubonic plague in London will be among more than 18 million parish records to be published on the internet.
Dating back to 1539, these records will offer the only way to trace the birth, marriage or burial of a person living before 1837, ancestry.co.uk has said.