This week, Findmypast.com continues last week’s focus on Coventry in Warwickshire.
- Coventry Bomb Damage Schedules 1940-1941 and Coventry Blitz, German Air Raids 1940-1941: This update includes 74,615 new and updated records that detail the bomb damage suffered by Coventry, a major industrial base of war-related production, during the German Air Raids of 1940 and 1941. The new set, Warwickshire, Coventry, Bomb Damage Schedules, comprises 73,811 images and transcriptions from 1940 and 1941. Additionally, 804 new transcriptions and images have been added to the existing Warwickshire, Coventry Blitz, German Air Raids 1940-1941 record set.
- Coventry Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers, 1853-1946: If your ancestor was in one of Coventry’s workhouses between 1853 and 1946, you might find their name in this new collection. There are 70,437 new workhouse records available for discovery. Read more about Coventry workhouses from Peter Higginbotham’s Workhouses.org/
- Warwickshire Burials, 1847-1896: This week also saw the addition of 37,963 burial records from Coventry’s London Road Cemetery, covering the years 1847 to 1896. More background information on the cemetery is available from the Historic Coventry Trust.
Also added this week are digitized pages of the Coventry Graphic newspaper from 1912 to 1921.
This is extremely welcoming. My late cousin told me she was evacuated from leafy Surrey to a village a short distance from the city centre for safety, She watched and felt every bomb land .
I can now look through how her great aunts house and street or neighbours were affected by the bombs and let her family know