Ancestry adds Royal Holloway and Bedford College Student Registers, and Belfast burial indexes

From Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk):

Yesterday we launched our Royal Holloway and Bedford College student registers. This collection includes records from two pioneering Victorian colleges. From discovering the records of Caroline Spurgeon, the first female professor at an English university, to learning that Bedford College launched the fashion for a bobbed haircut, this collection includes a multitude of firsts.

The collection is available as follows:

London, England, Royal Holloway and Bedford College Student Registers, 1849-1931
www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61821
Source: Royal Holloway College Student Records and Bedford College Student Records, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey.

Historical Context

This collection comprises student records from two Victorian colleges, Royal Holloway, originally a female-only college founded by Thomas Holloway and Bedford College, also a college for women, founded by Elizabeth Jesser Reid. They were among the first places in Britain where women could access higher education. Bedford College, in London, opened its doors in 1849, and Royal Holloway College based in Egham, Surrey, was unveiled by Queen Victoria in 1886. In 1900, the colleges became part of the University of London and in 1985 they merged to form what is now known as Royal Holloway.

This Collection

This collection contains student files and registers, with details of the students, the subjects they studied as well as vital events following graduation such as marriages and deaths .

The following information can be found in the records where available:

Name
Age
Birth date
Admission date
Marriage datel
Death date
Marital status
name of relativest


Ancestry has also added a third party index to Belfast burial registers:

Web: Belfast, Northern Ireland, Burial Indexes, 1869-2011
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/70881/
Source: https://dof.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialsearch/ accessed Dec 2019.

All data in this third-party database was obtained from the source’s website. Ancestry.com does not support or make corrections or changes to the original database. To learn more about these records, please refer to the source’s website.

Chris

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