London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company
This new collection consists of 13,788 railway records, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. If a family member is in these records you’ll find Name, Year, Occupation, Birth date, Year of appointment, Appointment date, Last year, Archive and reference. The linked original image may reveal even more, such as: Wage rates, Resignation dates, Notes on their character, Medical examinations, and possibly Ship names
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company
Covering 1818 to 1931, there are 80,813 records to discover.
The transcriptions will include: Name, Year, Occupation, Age, Birth year, Birth date, Residence, Station, Year of appointment, Last year, Last date, Archive and Reference. The images of the original records may provide you with even richer detail, such as: Career progression, Remarks on character, Salary, Illness, and Death date.
Newspapers
100,308 pages were added this week: five new titles and updates to 29 existing publications.
New titles:
Barking Gazette and South Essex Mercury, 1909-1910
Devonport Independent, 1864-1865, 1889, 1891
Irish Presbyterian, 1853-1858
Lichfield Mercury, Tamworth, Burton and Walsall Gazette, 1830-1833
Sunderland Herald, 1859, 1861, 1873, 1897
Updated titles:
Barrow Times, 1874-1875, 1878-1879
Billericay Gazette, 2000
Bootle Times, 2005
Bury Times, 1879
Crewe Chronicle, 2001
Dublin Mercantile Advertiser, 1847-1849
Eastern Daily Press, 1877
Eastwood & Kimberley Advertiser, 1983-2004
Edinburgh Evening News, 1958
Ellesmere Port Pioneer, 2000-2001
Glasgow Evening Times, 1881, 1888
Glasgow Weekly Mail, 1885, 1887
Hampshire Advertiser, 1860, 1908-1913
Harrogate Herald, 1859, 1874, 1952
Herapath’s Railway Journal, 1836
Hertford Mercury and Reformer, 2002
Hertfordshire Express, 1914, 1950
Hexham Courant, 1912
Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser, 1877
London and China Telegraph, 1900
Paisley Daily Express, 1950
Rothesay Chronicle, 1903, 1910, 1912
Salford Weekly News, 1876, 1879, 1881, 1889
Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 1750, 1753-1755, 1761
Teignmouth Post and Gazette, 1916-1919
Widnes Weekly News and District Reporter, 2002
Willesden Chronicle, 1919
Worcestershire Chronicle, 1910
Wrexham Guardian and Denbighshire and Flintshire Advertiser, 1889, 1911