Plague Death Records Published

Posted by admin on Sep 17, 2009

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.

The records show victims of the plague in 1665 and 1666 were sometimes marked out only with the letter P.

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