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By Daisy Goddard | September 5, 2025

There are new baptisms, marriages and burials to explore this week.

This week, we bolstered our parish records collection with 26,273 new additions from the county of Somerset.

288,672 pages also joined our newspaper archive - there are more stories than ever to explore.

Somerset Baptisms

We've added 10,440 new baptism records for Somerset, spanning three centuries.

Somerset Marriages

We've also bolstered our Somerset marriage record collection, with 8,472 new additions.

Somerset Burials

Rounding off this week's trio of parish additions, we've also updated our Somerset Burials collection, with 7,811 records spanning 1500 to the late 1800s.

New pages from Belfast to Bishop's Castle

288,672 pages joined our newspaper collection this week, with 15 new titles and updates to 43 existing publications.

New titles

Belfast Linen Trade Circular, 1857, 1885
Bishop’s Castle Advertiser and Clun News, 1901–1918
Bishop’s Castle Chronicle & Clun Valley Times, 1911
Bladud, 1885–1887, 1893
Bridgnorth Beacon and South Shropshire Advertiser, 1852–1854
Bridgnorth Weekly News, 1856
Cashel Sentinel, 1889–1896
Devon Post, 1872–1874, 1878, 1880, 1882–1899, 1901–1910
Ironbridge Weekly Journal and Borough of Wenlock Advertiser, 1869–1875, 1877–1882
Midland Sporting News, 1878, 1882
Oswestry Herald, 1820, 1822
Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Times, 1863–1864
Shropshire Mercury, 1840
The World, 1917–1922
Whitehaven Herald and Cumberland Advertiser, 1831–1872

Updated titles

Armagh Guardian, 1880, 1882–1886, 1910–1916, 1918–1919, 1931, 1940, 1943, 1945–1946, 1954–1959
Banffshire Advertiser, 1920–1923, 1925–1929, 1939–1949, 1960–1969, 1980
Banffshire Herald, 1919–1969
Blaydon Courier, 1905–1909, 1920–1928, 1940–1949
Bridgnorth Journal, 1854–1855, 1857–1863, 1901–1909, 1911–1949, 1951–1952
Brighton Standard and Fashionable Visitors’ List, 1878, 1880–1881, 1886, 1888–1889
Cannock Advertiser, 1878–1893, 1897, 1920, 1951–1955
Coalville Times, 1918–1949, 1952–1961
Dorset County Chronicle, 1881, 1885, 1892
Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1993
Eddowes’s Shrewsbury Journal, 1849–1859, 1872
Edinburgh Evening Post and Scottish Standard, 1845, 1850–1855, 1857
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette, 1872, 1874–1876, 1878–1883
Farmer’s Gazette and Journal of Practical Horticulture, 1888–1889
Felixstowe Times, 1963–1965
Fort-William News, 1899
Glasgow Citizen, 1846, 1849–1854, 1856–1857, 1859
Glasgow Constitutional, 1844, 1846–1848, 1850–1851, 1854
Glasgow Gazette, 1853, 1855–1857, 1860, 1862
Glasgow Mercantile Advertiser, 1880, 1883–1884, 1887–1891
Hampshire Chronicle, 1880, 1910, 1912–1918
Hastings & St. Leonards Advertiser, 1863, 1885, 1888, 1892, 1910, 1915
Home News for India, China and the Colonies, 1879–1880
Isle of Man Times, 1896, 1938, 1970–1974
Kent Herald, 1853–1870
Kirriemuir Free Press and Angus Advertiser, 1961–1965
Linlithgowshire Gazette, 1990, 1994–1999
Ludlow Advertiser, 1893
Morning Post, 1916–1917
Munster Express, 1860–1868
Newport & Market Drayton Advertiser, 1864–1868, 1911, 1927, 1941–1952, 1986–2002, 2004
Oswestry Advertiser, 1882–1883, 1898, 1912
Pawnbrokers’ Gazette, 1838, 1840–1849, 1860–1868, 1870–1894, 1929
Shrewsbury Chronicle, 1950
Shropshire Star, 1965–1985
St. Marylebone and Paddington Record, 1920–1925, 1927–1929, 1940–1949
Torquay Directory and South Devon Journal, 1876–1877, 1881, 1889, 1892, 1913–1918
Walsall Free Press and General Advertiser, 1883–1895, 1898–1903
Wellington Journal, 1911, 1965–1966
Welsh Gazette, 1953, 1960–1964
Wetherby News, 1999
Whitby Gazette, 1998
Wolverhampton Express and Star, 2004