Exciting new school and parish records are ready to search
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By Niall Cullen | August 6, 2021
Spend your weekend immersed in family history by exploring thousands of new English family records.
Where will your past take you this Findmypast Friday? Find out with the help of our latest record and newspaper releases.
National School Admission Registers
We’ve added over 9,000 new school records from Halifax, Yorkshire. In them, you can uncover family details you won’t find elsewhere.
Alongside our flagship collection of England and Wales National School Admission Registers & Log Books, Findmypast is home to a range of scholarly resources from North America, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Staffordshire Parish Registers
We’ve expanded this collection with thousands of new baptism, marriage, banns, and burial registers from four parishes in Staffordshire.
In 1809, Thomas Woolley married Mary Wood in Checkley. Their record includes where they're from and witness names. View the full record.
The latest additions come from the following churches:
- Caverswall, St Peter
- Chebsey, All Saints
- Checkley, St Mary & All Saints
- Tipton, St Martin
These Staffordshire resources form part of the largest collection of UK parish records available anywhere online.
Newspapers
15 new papers have just joined the site. Plus, we’ve updated seven more titles with extra pages. Brand new to our archives are:
- Aurora Borealis covering 1821
- Constitution (London) covering 1818-1819
- Empire News & The Umpire covering 1884-1895 and 1897-1911
- General Evening Post covering 1801-1813 and 1818-1822
- Instructor and Select Weekly Advertiser covering 1810-1811 and 1813-1814
- London Evening Post covering 1805-1806
- London Journal and Pioneer Newspaper covering 1845-1846
- London Moderator and National Adviser covering 1813, 1818-1819
- London Phalanx covering 1841-1843
- Observer of the Times covering 1821-1822
- Public Cause covering 1811-1812 and 1814-1816
- Standard of Freedom covering 1850-1851
- Tailor & Cutter covering 1866-1868 and 1879-1918
- True Sun covering 1832-1837
- Wooler’s British Gazette covering 1819
While we've extended our year coverage in:
- Boxing from 1913
- Englishman from 1803-1809, 1812-1813, and 1816-1834
- Morning Herald (London) from 1853 and 1863
- Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette from 1918 and 1920
- Press (London) from 1860
- Sporting Chronicle from 1874, 1891, 1897, 1902, 1904-1905 and 1921
- Swindon Advertiser from 1913
Findmypast Fridays live
Whether it's a story from your school days or an incredible find in parish records, we love hearing about your family discoveries. Tag @findmypast on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to tell us how your past has helped shape your present.
