Friday, 26 June 2020

FindmyPast adds further English Catholic records

The latest additions to FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk):

England Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms
We’ve added over 213,000 exclusive records from the Archdiocese of Southwark to this collection.

England Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records
Once you’ve found your ancestors' baptism records, it’s time to find the next religious milestone in their life - their confirmation. To help, we’ve added over 126,000 Southwark confirmation records to this congregational collection.

England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages
We’ve added almost 52,000 exclusive marriage registers from the Archdiocese of Southwark.

England Roman Catholic Parish Burials
The new Southwark Catholic collection is rounded-off with burial records from 54 parishes, over 378,000 of them.

England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717
Adding to our Catholic releases this week, we've digitised these unique records from The National Archives in Kew. The collection comprises 211 pieces from the FEC 1 series covering the Forfeited Estates Commission, abstracts of estates of Popish recusants. Abstracts of estates usually incorporate alphabetical lists of convicted recusants registered in various counties and towns in England and Wales. The returns include those estates which were described in the register, but for which no valuation was given.

Catholic records Rebellion of 1715
Included is a large collection of deeds and other documents produced before the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates and relating to estates attainted during the Rebellion of 1715.

Canada, Saskatchewan Vital Records Birth Index
Over 64,000 birth records from the province of Saskatchewan have been added to our Canadian record collection.

Canada, Saskatchewan Vital Records Death Index
This week's Canadian records update is completed with over 55,000 death records from Saskatchewan.

Newspapers
This week, we're bringing you two brand new newpaper titles, along with updates to two existing publications. Brand new to our newspaper collection are:

Beeston Gazette and Echo covering the years 1913-1938 and 1940
Maidenhead Advertiser covering the years 1870, 1872 and 1874-1912

While more pages have been added to:

Dundee Courier covering the years 1986, 1988 and 1990-1991
Derby Daily Telegraph from 1987

Further information and links at https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/catholic-and-canadian-records


Chris

My next 5 week Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers course starts July 6th - see https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. My next book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is now out, also available are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

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