A London-heavy week on Findmypast, with four new or updated record collections covering marriages, burials and wills across the capital and beyond.
Surrey, Southwark Marriages and Banns
Digitised in partnership with Southwark Archives, this new collection covers parish marriage and banns registers from the London Borough of Southwark — historically part of the county of Surrey, situated south of the Thames. The registers span Anglican, Baptist, Congregational and Methodist congregations from areas including Bermondsey, Borough, Camberwell and Peckham, and cover primarily the 19th and early 20th centuries. Records can include the names of bride and groom, marriage date and place, age, marital status, occupation, residence, and father’s name. Each result provides both a transcript and a digital image of the original document.
Greater London Burial Index, 1399–1992
This collection — now over three million records — covers burials across the Greater London area across nearly six centuries. Drawing together the Middlesex Burials & Memorial Inscriptions, South London Burials Index, City of London Burials, and Middlesex Burials, it includes more than 300 parishes with both Anglican and non-conformist burial grounds. Records can reveal name, age, occupation, religious denomination, and place of burial.
London, Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index, 1549–1807
This index covers 4,687 surviving wills proved in the Archdeaconry Court of London between 1700 and 1807, with the collection title extending back to 1549. The court had jurisdiction over roughly half the parishes in the City of London, as well as populous Middlesex parishes including St Leonard Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, and St Botolph Aldgate. Records include the testator’s name, parish of residence, occupation, and year of will. Original documents are now held at the London Metropolitan Archives.
Cumberland Burials
A welcome addition for those researching northern English ancestry, this collection of 240,525 burial records was provided by the College of Arms and includes transcripts and original index images. Records typically include first and last name, burial year and date, place, residence, and archive reference.
Newspapers
This week’s update adds 261,444 pages across six new titles and updates to 25 existing publications.
New Titles
| Title |
Location |
Date Range |
| Comet (Dublin) |
Dublin, Ireland |
1831–1833 |
| Eastern Bengal and Assam Era |
Dhaka, Bangladesh |
1907–1914 |
| Nenagh Guardian |
Nenagh, Tipperary, Ireland |
1838–1880 |
| Rushcliffe Advertiser |
Nottinghamshire, England |
1890–1895 |
| Times of India |
Bombay, India |
1910–1938 |
| Monmouthshire Chronicle |
Lydney, Gloucestershire |
1875–1877 |
Updated Titles with Over 10,000 Pages Added
| Title |
Date Range |
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| London Evening Standard |
1900–1919 |
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| Staffordshire Sentinel |
1997–2005 |
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| Downpatrick Recorder |
1865–1878 |
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| South Wales Echo |
2003 |
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