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You can search and download (£) surviving First World War service records (WO 363) and pension records (WO 364).
These are digitised records from collections held at The National Archives but you can search and download them from ancestry.co.uk (£).
Read our guide on British Army soldiers of the First World War for more information about these records.
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You can search and download (£) alien entry books (1794-1921) from ancestry.co.uk.
These are digitised records from a variety of record series held at The National Archives. Most of the collection consists of out-letters relating to aliens and naturalisations from HO 5.
For more information on what these records contain see ancestry.co.uk. (£)
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You can search and download lists of ships’ passengers entering and leaving the United Kingdom from and for ports outside Europe and the Mediterranean.
These are digitised records from two record series held at The National Archives:
- passengers who arrived in the UK between 1878 and 1960 (BT 26) at Ancestry.co.uk (£)
- passengers who left the UK between 1890 and 1960 (BT 27) at findmypast.co.uk (£)
For more information on what these records contain see the websites above.
Please note that BT 27 is also available on Ancestry.co.uk (£).
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You can search and download (£) details of foreign nationals (known as aliens) who arrived in England 1810-1811 and 1826-1869.
These are digitised records from a variety of record series held at The National Archives:
- lists of aliens arriving at English ports (FO 83/21-22)
- certificates of arrival of aliens (HO 2)
- returns and papers of the Home Office (HO 3)
- account of aliens arriving in certificates of arrival numbers 1-1055 (CUST 102/393-395)
- Account of aliens arriving in Gravesend: certificates of arrival (CUST 102/396)
For more information on what these records contain see Ancestry.co.uk. (£)
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You can search and download (£) Maritime deaths records 1781-1968 from the Admiralty, the Board of Trade, the Colonial Office and Customs and Excise at findmypast.co.uk.
These are digitised records from collections held at The National Archives.
For more information on what these records contain see findmypast.co.uk.
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You can search and download (£) selected crime records for England and Wales 1770-1935.
These are selected digitised records from a variety of record collections held at The National Archives:
- Registers of convicts in prison hulks (ADM 6)
- After-trial calendars of prisoners of the Central Criminal Court (CRIM 9)
- Home Office: convicts, miscellanea (HO 7)
- Quarterly returns of prisoners 1824-1876 of asylums (HO 8)
- Home Office Criminal entry books 1782-1871 (HO 13)
- Home Office criminal petitions series 1 (HO 17)
- Home Office criminal petitions series 2 (HO 18)
- Home Office registers of criminal petitions (HO 19)
- Home Office: Registers of Prisoners from National Prisons lodged in County Prisons 1847-1866 (HO 23)
- Home Office: Prison Registers and Statistical Returns 1838-1875 (HO 24)
- Home Office: criminal registers, Middlesex (HO 26)
- Home Office: criminal registers, England and Wales (HO 27)
- Home Office: Judges’ Reports on Criminals 1784-1830 (HO 47)
- Home Office: Newgate Prison Calendar 1782-1853 (HO 77)
- Home Office: Miscellaneous Criminal Books 1798-1831 (HO 130)
- Home Office: calendar of prisoners (HO 140)
- Metropolitan Police: Criminal Record Office: habitual criminals’ registers and miscellaneous papers (MEPO 6)
- Home Office and Prison Commission: prison records (PCOM 2)
- Home Office and Prison Commission: Male Licences 1853-1887 (PCOM 3)
- Home Office and Prison Commission: Female Licences 1853-1887 (PCOM 4)
- Home Office: Old Captions and Transfer Papers 1843-1871 (PCOM 5)
- Treasury: Departmental Accounts: Convict Hulks 1802-1831 (T 38)
For more information on what these records contain see findmypast.co.uk.
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You can search and download railway employment records 1833-1956.
These are selected digitised records from a variety of record collections held at The National Archives. Most date from before the nationalisation of the railways in 1948 and are from private railways companies.
For more information on what these records contain see Ancestry.co.uk (£).
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You can search and download (£) maritime births records 1867-1960 from the Admiralty, the Board of Trade, the Colonial Office and Customs and Excise at findmypast.co.uk.
These are digitised records from collections held at The National Archives.
For more information on what these records contain see findmypast.co.uk.
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You can search and download (£) these selected prisoners of war records 1715-1945 from Findmypast.co.uk.
These records are predominantly of British prisoners of war.
These are selected digitised records from a variety of record collections held at The National Archives, including Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Admiralty and Air Force collections.
For more information on what these records contain see Findmypast.co.uk.
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You can search and download (£) merchant seamen records 1835-1857.
These are digitised records from a variety of record series held at The National Archives:
- the register of seamen series I in BT 120 (1835–1836)
- the register of seamen series II, in BT 112 (with its associate name index in BT 119) (1835–1844)
- the register of seamen’s tickets, in BT 113 (the surname index is in BT 114) (1845–1854)
- the register of seamen series III, in BT 116 (1853–1857)
For more information on what these records contain see findmypast.co.uk.
See our guide to records of Merchant Navy seamen in service before 1914 for detailed guidance.