Half-month updates of British genealogy collections

Below is a summary of new and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales released by the major genealogy databases in the first half of October (see last summary blogpost of 1 October).

This regular summary of releases relating to British collections is designed to help family historians whose Irish ancestors migrated, temporarily or permanently, to England, Scotland or Wales.

By default, it will also be useful to anyone carrying out research in those three nations, regardless of the origin of their ancestors.

The figures in parenthesis in the New Collections section are the numbers of records/images in the new record set.

Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis in the Updated Collections section reflect the number of records added to the collection in the recent update. In some instances, the supplier has not made this figure available.

Please note that I don't usually include updates of fewer than 1,000 records.

NEW COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• Bedfordshire, England, Workhouse and Poor Law Records, 1835-1914

British Library

• Topographical Collection of King George III. 18,000 images of historical maps, views and atlases uploaded to a dedicated Flickr album; detailed maps searchable via Library catalogue. More.

BritishNewspaperArchive

• Invergordon Times and General Advertiser
• Haddingtonshire Advertiser and East-Lothian Journal
• Weekly Dispatch (London)
• Boxing
• Burton Observer and Chronicle

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Deceased Online

• Higher Cemetery, Exeter City, 1862‐2019 (73,779)

FamilySearch

• Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 (11,977)
• Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (8,246)
• Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (11,261)
• Great Britain, War Office Registers, 1772-1935 (108,527)

FindMyPast

• Devon Burials (19,000 added. New total 2,130,819)
• England & Wales Non-Conformist Births and Baptisms (Surrey Methodists added)
• Kent Baptisms (7,000+ for Sutton-at-Hone, Woolwich and St Mary Cray.)
• Kent Burials (5,000+ from Eltham and Thames & Medway.)

The Genealogist

• Norfolk Parish Records (new total 11.5m)

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