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New Cheshire parish burial records published
Search 3,749 new Cheshire parish burial records on findmypast.co.uk
These records could provide essential new information for those of you with Cheshire ancestors.
Further details are as follows:
Type of records: Burials
Number of records: 3,749
Date range: 1800-2002
Parish / place: Appleton
The Cheshire Family History Society provided findmypast.co.uk with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.
148,000 new burial records to search on findmypast.co.uk
Great news for anyone with East Surrey or East Kent ancestors: we’ve just published 148,316 new burial records for these areas.
The details of these records are as follows:
- St Mary parish in Lambeth: 20,315 records covering 1819-1838. The East Surrey Family History Society provided these records.
- East Kent: 128,001 records covering 1802-1846. These records are from the East Kent Burial Index.
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Search over 154,000 new Warwickshire parish burials
We have just published 154,074 new parish burial records for Birmingham, Warwickshire on findmypast.co.uk
The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry provided us with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.
Further details about these records are as follows:
| Type of records | Number of records |
Years covered | County covered | Areas covered |
| Burials | 154,074 | 1883–2007 | Warwickshire | Key Hill Cemetery and Warstone Lane Cemetery, Birmingham |
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Over 14,000 new Warwickshire parish baptisms and burials published
We have just published 14,105 new parish baptism and burial records for Warwickshire on findmypast.co.uk
The Rugby Family History Group provided findmypast.co.uk with these records, working in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.
Here are further details about each set of records:
| Type of records | Number of records |
Years covered | Parishes covered |
| Baptisms | 7,896 | 1564–1879 | Bilton St Marks and Hillmorton St John the Baptist |
| Burials | 6,209 | 1564 – 1905 | Bilton St Marks and Hillmorton St John the Baptist |
Search for your Warwickshire ancestors now in our parish records collection.
Over 22,000 new Dorset parish records published
We have just published 22,989 new parish records for Dorset on findmypast.co.uk: 1,533 baptisms, 8,084 marriages and 13,372 burials.
The Dorset Family History Society provided us with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.
The table below gives details of each set of records:
| Type of records | Number of records |
Years covered | Parishes covered |
| Baptisms | 1,533 | 1538-1839 | Okeford Fitzpaine
Portesham |
| Marriages | 8,084 | 1546-1839 | Gillingham
Melcombe Regis Portland Gussage All Saints Glanvilles Wootton Lytchet Matravers Fordington Longbredy Frampton Okeford Fitzpaine Fontmell Magna Holnest Halstock Shipton Gorge Bishops Caundle Lydlinch Licence Hooke Frome St Quintin |
| Burials | 13,372 | 1573-1749 | Chettle
Cranborne Dorchester All Saints Dorchester Holy Trinity Dorchester St Peter Gussage All Saints Melbury Abbas Okeford Fitzpaine Portesham Wyke Regis |
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Over 14,000 new Middlesex memorial inscriptions published
We have just published 14,262 new memorial inscriptions for Middlesex on findmypast.co.uk
Cliff Webb provided us with these records. You can find them in our Middlesex parish burials collection.
These new records cover the period 1399 to 1992, making them some of the oldest records in our parish records collection.
Official parish records started in 1538, but some related records do exist for earlier years. The parish records collection on findmypast.co.uk contains some records for the period preceding 1538; however, these records are few in number.
Search for your Middlesex ancestors in these records now.
303,594 new parish records now on findmypast.co.uk
We’ve been busy publishing 303,594 new parish records on findmypast.co.uk to make it even more likely that you’ll find your ancestors in our records. Read on for more details…
271,193 new Devon marriage records added to findmypast.co.uk
Following the 360,000 Devon baptism records recently published on findmypast.co.uk, we’ve just added 271,193 new Devon parish marriage records to the site.
The records cover the years 1754 to 1837 and were provided by the Devon Family History Society.
Add to your family tree by searching our parish marriage records now.
32,401 Calderdale baptism and burial records added to findmypast.co.uk
We’ve also just published 32,401 baptism and burial records for Calderdale on findmypast.co.uk
Here is a breakdown of these records:
|
County
|
Type of record
|
No. of records
|
Dates the records cover
|
|
Calderdale
(Halifax and district) |
Baptisms
|
17,822
|
1703 – 1901
|
|
Calderdale
(Halifax and district) |
Burials
|
14,579
|
1704 – 1931
|
Calderdale Family History Society provided findmypast.co.uk with these records.
Find your ancestors today by searching our parish baptisms and burials.
Parish records are essential when trying to find your ancestors and you can view records from as far back as 1538 on findmypast.co.uk
The findmypast.co.uk team are committed to regularly adding thousands of records to our parish records collection. We hope you enjoy searching these records.
8,000 new Dorset marriage records – read our bizarre finds
We have just added 8,368 new Dorset marriage records to findmypast.co.uk which cover the years 1560 to 1839.
We’ve done some digging around and have found some unusual names in our Dorset parish records collection.
We found a marriage between Martha Loaring and Samuel Single on 14 October 1750 in Bettiscombe, making Martha a married Single:
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The Dorset baptisms also offered some amusing names: here you can see a record for ‘Love Dear Bedloe’ who was baptised on 27 August 1745 in Dorchester:
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We also found a ‘Fruit Carter’ in the Dorset baptisms, who was baptised on 17 May 1807 in Chickerell:
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The Dorset burial records contain a slightly more sinister discovery: an ‘unknown’ person buried on 8 April 1815 in Abbotsbury. The notes state that the unknown person was ‘found on shore’:
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Search for your ancestors in our parish records – and maybe you’ll even make some weird and wonderful discoveries of your own.
Search over 90,000 new parish records on findmypast.co.uk
Almost 70,000 new Dorset and Wiltshire parish records now on findmypast.co.uk
We have just published 69,545 new parish records for Dorset and Wiltshire on findmypast.co.uk
These records were provided by the Dorset Family History Society and the Wiltshire Family History Society.
The table below provides more information on these new records:
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County
|
Type of record
|
No. of records
|
Dates the records cover
|
|
Dorset
|
Baptism
|
12,325
|
1549 – 1812
|
|
Dorset
|
Burial
|
1,307
|
1651 – 1795
|
|
Wiltshire
|
Baptism
|
55,913
|
1541 – 1851
|
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Over 22,000 new Thames-side and Medway parish baptism records now on the site
We have also just added 22,236 more parish baptism records to our Thames-side and Medway parish records collection. This brings the total amount of Thames-side and Medway baptism records you can search on findmypast.co.uk to 300,070 for the period 1721-1970.
Read more about our Thames-side and Medway records collection.
The value of parish records
Parish records are invaluable when tracing your ancestry as they go back much further than birth, marriage and death records. You can search parish records for baptisms, marriages and burials that date back as far as 1538 on findmypast.co.uk
The Federation of Family History Societies distributes its members’ records in partnership with findmypast.co.uk. Many family history societies contribute their records to make our parish records collection as comprehensive as it is. You can read more about the societies that contribute on our FFHS data providers page.
When you’ve found your ancestors in our parish records you’ll realise just how useful they are.
Read more about the value of parish records in our knowledge base.
Over 163,000 new Thames-side parish burial records published
You can now search 163,477 new Thames-side and Medway parish burial records on findmypast.co.uk
These burial records cover Middlesex, Essex, Surrey and Kent for the period 1702 to 1997. These records represent the next part of a collection licensed from local specialist Rob Cottrell, and follow on from the Thames-side and Medway baptism records we recently published.
We will publish marriage records shortly and occupational records of Thames watermen and lightermen will follow to complete the collection.
Find your Thames-side and Medway ancestors today in our parish burial records.