Millions of new parish records join the site
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By Liam Kelly | July 17, 2020
Findmypast is home to the largest collection of UK parish records online and it just got even bigger.
If you have Surrey family connections, you’ll want to see what’s new this week. We've just released over 1.3 million brand new parish records. Not to mention a whole host of additional newspaper pages.
Surrey Baptisms
We’ve added over 558,000 brand new records from 126 Surrey parishes to this collection. Baptism records can reveal fascinating details for your family tree including:
- Your ancestors' names
- Their birth and baptism dates
- Their parents’ names
- Their parents’ occupations
- Where they were baptised
- Their religious denominations
Findmypast's parish records cover all of Britain and Ireland with many collections you won't find elsewhere online. View the map in detail.
For all of this week's Surrey additions, check the parish list for details of the new churches and time frames covered.
Surrey Marriages
Once you’ve found your Surrey ancestor's baptism record, it's time to find their marriage. To help, we’ve added over 438,000 additional marriage records to our Surrey parish collection. These milestone family records can reveal:
- Your ancestors’ names
- Their ages and birth years
- When, where and who they married
- Where they lived
- Their fathers' names and occupations
- Witness names for both bride and groom
Records from 182 Surrey parishes have been released in this latest tranche of marriages. Combine them with our vast array of other Surrey resources to unlock rich family stories you won't get anywhere else.
Surrey Burials
This week's Surrey Collection is complete with brand new burial records from 121 parishes across the county, over 330,000 of them. Burial records provide unique details on your family's final resting places including:
- Their names
- Their birth, death and burial dates
- Their ages when they died
- Their occupations
- Where they were buried
- Their religious denominations
Medical pioneer, Dr Jonathan Hutchinson was buried at Haslemere, St Bartholomew in June 1913.
All of this week's new parish records have been provided by Surrey County Council.
Newspapers
We’ve added three new papers to our extensive archive, along with updates to 21 existing ones. The three new arrivals are:
- Sporting Chronicle covering 1889, 1907-1908, and 1916
- North Wales Weekly News covering 1956-1980
- Rochdale Times covering 1872-1879, 1896, 1898-1899, 1910-1912, and 1914-1923
While the lengthy list of updated newspaper coverage looks like this:
- Newcastle Journal from 1894, 1900-1901, 1913, and 1920
- New Crusader from 1916
- Worthing Gazette from 1960
- Chelsea News and General Advertiser from 1947
- Brighton Gazette from 1872, and 1912
- Exeter and Plymouth Gazette from 1952
- Motherwell Times from 1960
- Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald from 1951-1956
- Wexford Independent from 1872
- The Dublin Builder from 1872
- Birmingham Daily Post from 1899
- Hampshire Advertiser from 1935-1940
- Leicester Chronicle from 1924, 1926-1928, 1934-1947, 1949, 1960-1964, 1966-1974, 1976, and 1978-1979
- Westmeath Guardian and Longford News-Letter from 1852
- Hampshire Independent from 1836, 1838-1841, 1844, 1847, 1879, 1883, 1886-1887, 1901-1902, 1906-1907, and 1919
- Leinster Reporter from 1881
- Kilkenny Moderator from 1832, and 1885
- Clonmel Chronicle from 1881
- Sligo Independent from 1855, and 1857-1859
- Wakefield Express from 1873, and 1889
- Merthyr Express from 1947, and 1949-1952
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