Brand new English parish records are now online

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By Niall Cullen | September 10, 2021

If your family hails from the West Midlands of England, this week's new releases are simply unmissable.

With new parish records, newspapers and a fascinating midwife's register to explore, where will your past take you this week? Keep reading to get all the details on what's new.

Warwickshire Parish Records

We’ve added hundreds of thousands of new baptism, marriage and burial records from St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham.

The interior of St Martin's in the Bull Ring church, Birmingham, England.

Specifically, the new releases cover:

Over 138,000 baptism records
Over 155,000 marriage records
Over 101,000 burial records

Check the parish list to see all of the churches and years covered in our vast Warwickshire collection.

Warwickshire, Coventry Midwife's Birth Register 1845-1875

Coventry midwife Mary Eaves attended over 4,400 births during her long career. The registers she kept are now searchable online, only at Findmypast.

Mary was born around 1806 in Coventry. Her career as a midwife spanned from 1847 to 1875. In that time, she helped deliver 34 sets of twins. There were 21 deaths during the births she attended, five newborns and 16 mothers.

In partnership with Coventry Family History Society, Findmypast is home to a host of unique resources from the area. Explore old pawnbroker tickets, air raid reports and more.

Newspapers

We continue to publish papers at a blistering pace. This week, we’ve released 44 new publications including:

Age covering 1853
Agricultural Advertiser and Tenant-Farmers’ Advocate covering 1846
Bell’s Family Newspaper covering 1858
Bright’s Intelligencer and Arrival List covering 1860
British Banner covering 1848-1849, 1853 and 1855
Charles Knight’s Town & Country Newspaper covering 1855-1856
Colonist and Commercial Weekly Advertiser covering 1824-1825
Common Sense covering 1824-1826
Crown covering 1838-1839
Croydon Times covering 1861-1870, 1875-1878, 1880-1884, 1891-1899, 1901-1909, 1912-1918, 1920-1923, 1925 and 1927-1933
Daily Director and Entr’acte covering 1859
Duckett’s Dispatch covering 1818
Francis’s Metropolitan News covering 1859
Golden Times covering 1852
Illustrated London Life covering 1843
Illustrated Weekly Times covering 1843
Liverpool Telegraph covering 1836 and 1838
London Chronicle and Country Record covering 1853-1854
London Daily Guide and Stranger’s Companion covering 1859-1860
London Journal and General Advertiser for Town and Country covering 1836-1837
London Railway Newspaper covering 1845
Metropolitan covering 1856
Morning Gazette covering 1837
National Protector covering 1847
New Globe covering 1823
Newark Advertiser covering 1910, 1912 and 1987-1988
North London Record covering 1858-1869
Pen and Pencil covering 1855
Picture Times covering 1855-1856
Political Observer covering 1819-1820
Railway Bell and London Advertiser covering 1844-1846
Sunday Evening Globe covering 1836-1837
Sunday Morning Herald covering 1824
Sunday News covering 1823
The British Banner covering 1856 and 1858
The Palladium covering 1829
Tower Hamlets Mail covering 1857-1858
True Briton covering 1801-1804
Union covering 1857-1862
Vindicator (London) covering 1859
Watchman covering 1827-1828
Weekly Globe covering 1824-1825
West End News covering 1859-1860
World and Fashionable Sunday Chronicle covering 1818

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