Browse burials, military records and more
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By Daisy Goddard | February 14, 2025
Delve deeper into your family's story with over 30,000 new additions.
We've updated four of our English sets this week, with 31,187 records added. Explore Middlesex monumental inscriptions and Herefordshire burial index records.
But that's not all - to help you uncover your heroic ancestors, we've updated our Northamptonshire militia lists with 14,611 new records, spanning 237 years.
We also added two titles to our newspaper archive.
Northamptonshire Militia Lists
These transcriptions document the Northamptonshire men who served with the military between 1546 and 1783.
Herefordshire Burial Index
If your ancestor was buried in Herefordshire between the 16th and 19th centuries, their name may appear within these 9,941 new records.
These unique transcriptions cover an impressive 232 years, between 1580 and 1812.
Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions
Covering 1867 to 2022, 6,635 records joined our collection of Middlesex monumental inscriptions this week.
Hounslow's Isleworth Cemetery. Image credit: Irid Escent, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
These records are all from Isleworth Cemetery in Hounslow.
New pages from Banbridge to Boston Spa
This week, we added 304,982 newspaper pages to our archive, with two new English titles and updates to 34 existing publications.
For the first time, explore the Blackpool Gazette and the Scunthorpe Star. These new pages are from intermittent years between 1878 and 1996 and offer a fascinating insight into British life in the 19th and 20th centuries.
New titles:
Blackpool Gazette, 1878, 1890-1895
Scunthorpe Star, 1950, 1988-1996
Updated titles:
Aberdeen Evening Express, 1957
Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser, 1912
Alnwick Mercury, 1998, 2004
Argyllshire Advertiser, 1993
Banbridge Chronicle, 2004
Biggleswade Chronicle, 1986–1987
Boston Spa News, 1950–1951
Bucks Herald, 2004
Cannock Chase Chronicle, 1986, 2004
Carluke and Lanark Gazette, 2004
Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal, 1890–1896, 1898–1902
Cleckheaton & Spenborough Guardian, 1873, 1889, 1951, 2004
Cumberland and Westmorland Advertiser, and Penrith Literary Chronicle, 1860, 1875, 1889–1893
Dudley & District Chronicle, 1986, 2003–2004
Fraserburgh Herald and Northern Counties’ Advertiser, 1889, 1965–1974, 1986–1987, 1991–1992
Frome Times, 1875–1877
Harrogate Herald, 1860, 1912
Inverness Courier, 1943–1949, 1968, 1984–1985, 1988–1989
Melton Mowbray Times and Vale of Belvoir Gazette, 1961–1962
Midland Counties Express, 1986–1988, 1996, 1999–2004
Morecambe Visitor, 2003
Morpeth Herald, 1983–1984, 2004
Newry Reporter, 1914, 1916–1921, 1929–1988, 1990–1995, 1997–2004
Pembrokeshire Herald, 1873, 1878–1879
Perthshire Courier, 1900–1919, 1921–1926
Ripon Gazette, 2004
Sandwell Chronicle, 1997, 2004
Shoreham Herald, 2003–2004
Shrewsbury Chronicle, 1986
South Shropshire Journal, 2004
South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times, 1975, 1985–1989
Telford Journal, 2004
Walsall Chronicle, 1996, 2003–2004
Warwick Courier, 1990–1991, 2003
