Peter Wilson Coldham

Peter Wilson Coldham is a British genealogist born in London in 1926.

Coldham was awarded the Bickersteth Medal in 1991 and is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists and Society of Genealogists, London.

Coldham has authored 26 books, several monographs and magazine articles, including many standard works on Anglo-American genealogy.

Works include:

*"The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1660"
*"The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1661-1699"
*"The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1700-1750"
*"The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1751-1776"
*"The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775"
*"Supplement to The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775"
*"American Migrations 1765-1799". The lives, times, and families of colonial Americans who remained loyal to the British Crown before, during and after the Revolutionary War, as related in their own words and through their correspondence
*"Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778"
*"The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686"
*"Emigrants from England to the American Colonies, 1773-1776"
*"Emigrants in Chains". A Social History of Forced Emigration to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, Political and Religious Non-Conformists, Vagabonds, Beggars and Other Undesirables, 1607-1776
*"English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660". Abstracts of Examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with Reference to Colonial America
*"English Estates of American Colonists. American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1699"
*"English Estates of American Colonists. American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1700-1799"
*"English Estates of American Settlers. American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1800-1858"
*"American Wills Proved in London, 1611-1775"
*"American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1857"