Findmypast Weekly Update

Norfolk, Churchyard Graves and Memorials
Added are 9,263 records covering the 1700s to 1900s. The information is from headstone photographs, so it depends on the original inscription and what remains legible. FMP’s catalogue shows three Norfolk titles for monumental inscriptions:
Norfolk, Churchyard Graves and Memorial Transcriptions with 327,650 records;
Norfolk, Churchyard Graves and Memorials Image Browse with 226,774 records;
Norfolk Monumental Inscriptions 1600-1900’s Image Browse with 14,120 records.

Southwark, Marshalsea Prison
Just 18 records added, for the years 1761 and 1813 as FMP goes further into its partnership with Southwark Archives. Marshalsea Prison is known as the setting for Charles Dickens’ novel ‘Little Dorrit. His own father was incarcerated in this notorious, 500-year-old prison, home to debtors, pirates, smugglers and others who fell afoul of the law.

Newspapers
This week’s largest addition is the Wetherby News, with over 38,000 pages, followed by Scotland on Sunday with almost 24,000 pages. Note the addition of three Irish papers: Londonderry Standard, Leinster Leader, Armagh Guardian. Le Follet is a French fashion magazine, but with pages in English. Here are the papers with more than 10,000 new pages.

Title Date Range Pages Added
Wetherby News 1990-1992, 1994-1996, 1998, 2002-2004 38,544
Scotland on Sunday 1997, 2000, 2002 23,912
Wiltshire News (NEW) 1914-1915, 1917, 1930-1937, 1946-1948, 1950, 1952-1955, 1957-1959, 1961 23,730
Bucks Standard 1923-1955 16,502
Londonderry Standard 1888-1900, 1921-1922, 1926, 1963-1964 16,402
Leinster Leader 1991-1999 15,134
Le Follet (NEW) 1846-1900 14,326
Armagh Guardian 1881, 1887-1889, 1900-1909, 1920-1930, 1941-1942, 1944, 1947-1949, 1960-1965 12,388

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