Over 100,000 new parish burial records just added to the site

Following the 7,000 Lancashire burial records we added to the site yesterday, today we’ve added 100,131 new parish burial records for Lancashire and Cumberland to findmypast.co.uk.

Here’s a breakdown of the new records you can find on the site:

Lancashire: 1725-2005: 87,932 new records

Cumberland: 1813-1999: 12,199 new records

Start searching our parish burial records for your ancestors today.

The Furness Family History Society provided findmypast.co.uk with this data.

3 Responses to “Over 100,000 new parish burial records just added to the site”

1. Susan says:

   1 July 2010 at 9:27 am

   Excellent … we now just need Cumberland adding to the filter and the “parish burial records” URL above pointing to the live site rather than the test.

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2. jessmoore says:

   1 July 2010 at 2:27 pm

   Well spotted Susan - the link has been fixed and Cumberland will appear on the filter from tomorrow morning.

   Thanks for letting us know!

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3. carmel says:

   13 July 2010 at 2:12 pm

   Hi there has anyone come across the name Barrett orginiating from ottery st mary or colyton in Devon. the man has to be somewhere, but where.

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