> >I have looked at 1881 census and found >Henry Peter Garner abt 1854 (aged 27) Pinner, Middlesex. >His wife Eleanor 33y is from Hackney, but there first child is born is Beatrice >from Pimlico, all say Middlesex. > >Not sure if I have to look in parish registers for London or Middlesex for the >areas above. Immaterial - all the registers are in the London Metropolitan Archives/ 'London' ooriginally meant only the City of London (registers at Guildhall Library), but it gradually took in the rest, until 'Middlesex' only exists as a postal entity (or in the names of some organisations). -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society