Uncover new Catholic records from Cymru
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By Daisy Goddard | March 7, 2025
Discover Welsh stories this Findmypast Friday.
We've bolstered the Catholic Heritage Archive this week, with three new Welsh record sets. If you've got ancestors from Wales, their names may appear in these baptisms, marriages, and burials from Cardiff.
We've also added seven new titles to our newspaper archive and updated a further seven existing publications.
Wales Roman Catholic Baptisms (Cardiff)
This week's biggest new collection consists of 67,733 baptism records, with both images and transcriptions to explore.
Wales Roman Catholic Marriages (Cardiff)
These 18,741 Welsh marriage records span an impressive 184 years.
Can you find your ancestors' union?
Wales Roman Catholic Burials (Cardiff)
If your Welsh relative was buried in or around the city of Cardiff, their name may appear within these 9,111 new parish burial records.
New stories from Banffshire to Bournemouth
Lady's Pictorial, the Englishwomen's Review and five other titles joined the archive this week, with a grand total of 381,980 new pages added.
We've also updated seven existing publications.
New titles:
- English Woman’s Journal, 1858-1861
- Englishwoman’s Review, 1871-1910
- Hastings and Bexhill Independent, 1873-1896, 1899-1910, 1912-1917
- Hastings and St. Leonards News, 1859-1860, 1863-1864, 1882, 1884-1886, 1889, 1891-1892, 1894, 1901-1905
- Ladies’ Field, 1899-1919, 1921-1928
- Lady’s Pictorial, 1881-1908, 1910-1921
- Mitcham Advertiser, 1916-1930, 1932-1933
Updated titles:
- Banffshire Advertiser, 1987-1989
- Bournemouth Times and Directory, 1889
- Caithness Courier, 1981-1982, 1987, 1990, 1999
- Londonderry Standard, 1910-1911, 1913-1916, 1918-1919, 1951, 1953-1959
- Shropshire Star, 1992
- The Queen, 1874, 1918-1945, 1947-1960, 1962
- Wellington Journal, 1969-1970
