Uncover the experiences of your Londoner ancestors

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By Daisy Goddard | July 18, 2025

There are new trade registers and workhouse records to search this Findmypast Friday.

This week, we bolstered our collection with a brand new set of trade registers and a substantial update to our Southwark workhouse records. These latest additions span almost 300 years.

Surrey, Southwark, Licenses and Trade Registers

Spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries, this set comprises 25,361 licence and trade register records from Southwark.

Surrey, Southwark, St George The Martyr Workhouse Records

If your English ancestors spent time in Southwark's St George the Martyr Workhouse, their name may appear within this updated collection, to which 63,448 new records have been added.

New pages from Hackney to Hastings

202,482 pages joined our newspaper archive this week, with five new publications and eleven titles updated. Here's everything that's been added.

New titles:

Children’s Newspaper, 1957
Hackney Mercury, 1896–1910
Nottinghamshire Weekly Express, 1886–1888, 1890–1895, 1900–1917
Queenstown Gazette, 1851
Swanage and Wareham Guardian, 1890–1895, 1898–1909, 1913–1919

Updated titles:

Dublin Evening Mail, 1872-1874
Evening Freeman, 1847, 1850
Farmer’s Gazette and Journal of Practical Horticulture, 1871-1887, 1890-1896
Freeman’s Journal, 1769-1770, 1772-1774
Hastings & St. Leonards Advertiser, 1863-1864, 1869, 1876, 1880, 1908-1909, 1911-1912, 1916-1918
Linlithgowshire Gazette, 1954-1966, 1968-1980, 1986-1989, 1991, 1993
Morning Advertiser, 1877-1888, 1890-1891, 1896-1898
Northern Scot and Moray & Nairn Express, 1917-1946, 1948-1978, 1980-1985, 1987
Police Gazette, 1914-1915
South Wales Daily News, 1911
Weekly Freeman’s Journal, 1821-1831, 1838-1840