We’ve been busy this week adding over 40,000 new parish baptism and burial records to findmypast.co.uk

New City of London Burial Index records

We’ve just added 30,596 records for the Spa Fields Burial Ground from the City of London Burial Index to findmypast.co.uk

These records cover the period from March 1778 to March 1810 and takes findmypast.co.uk’s coverage of this site from 1778 up to 1849.

Search these records in our parish burial records collection.

More information about the City of London Burial Index can be found in our knowledge base.

New London docklands parish baptism records

Also this week, we’ve added 10,625 new London docklands parish baptism records to the site. The details of these records are as follows:

St Mary Stratford – 1771-1813 – 1,966 baptisms
St Mary Stratford – 1813-1831 – 1,534 baptisms
St John Wapping – 1707-1734 – 7,125 baptisms

Search our parish baptisms for your London docklands ancestors.

These records were provided by Docklands Ancestors. You can read more about the London docklands records in our knowledge base.

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.

We have just published over 7,000 Roman Catholic burial records for Pleasington Priory (St Mary & St John the Baptist) in Blackburn, Lancashire on findmypast.co.uk. The dates of the burials cover the period 1899 to 1996.

Most of the records relate to English and Irish Catholics but you can also find some Italian and Polish burials in these records, among others. Additionally, the records include deceased from religious orders, including nuns shown with their true given names as well as their religious names.

You can find out more about Pleasington Priory here.

These records have been kindly supplied by their transcriber Bill Binns.

Search for your ancestors in our parish burial records.

We’ve just added over 50,000 new baptisms for Stepney and Spitalfields. The records are broken down by church making them easier for you to pinpoint your ancestors. We’ve added almost 20,000 records for Spitalfields and over 30,000 for Stepney with the breakdown by church as follows:

Stepney Churches
St Dunstan 1835 - 1848   -  11,967 new records
St George in the East 1861-1877  -  15,848 new records

Spitalfields
Christ Church 1729-1795  -  19,481 - new records

We’ve also added the London probate indexes for names A-F, and a complete dataset for Kent. Records that we have include:

• Over 15,000 records added for London for the years 1750 - 1858
• 6,300 records for West Kent for the years 1750 - 1858
• 128,000 records for East Kent for the years 1831 - 1841

You can find these currently listed within Parish Burials.