The following items were posted for FindMyPast Friday, August 3, 2018.
1939 Register Update
Over 37,000 “closed records” have been opened up and are now available to search. Search today and find out what your ancestors were doing on the eve of WW2. Discover exactly what they did for a living, maps of where they lived and even who their neighbours were.
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Cheshire Registers & Records
Explore registers and records from the English county of Cheshire. This collection currently comprises five titles including parish registers, local histories and funeral certificates.
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Cumberland Registers & Records
This collection currently comprises one title: Monumental Inscriptions in the Graveyards of Brigham & Bridekirk, 1666-1876. This title was published in 1878. The preface notes that ‘the whole of these inscriptions were copied with great care, and the same care has been extended to the printing of them’.
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Derbyshire Registers & Records
This collection currently comprises one title: The Brave Men of Eyam, 1665-1666. The preface of this title states that the statistics regarding deaths, dates, and some leading incidents are historical, although ‘the object of the book is to tell, in a popular form, the tale of a “mighty woe”’.
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Devon Registers & Records
Explore registers and records from the English county of Devon. This collection currently comprises one title: Parish Registers of Hemyock, 1635-1837.
Parish Registers of Hemyock, 1635-1837 was published in 1923. Included in this title are 282 pages of baptisms, marriages, and burials, as well as bishop’s transcripts from 1602, 1606, 1609-11, 1617, 1625, 1626, 1633, and 1636. Additionally, a list of the parish’s rectors and chaplain priests is included. Hemyock is a civil parish and village. The production of wool was the village’s main source of wealth from the 1500s to the 1800s. It is said that the Cadbury family originated in Hemyock.
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Historical Newspapers Added This Week:
FindMyPast has added even more coverage to the following Newspapers of FindMyPast Friday, August 3, 2018:
