Findmypast Weekly Update

Following on from last week, when FMP introduced records from the Royal School of Needlework, come two more small databases between 1889 and 1946.

Royal School of Needlework Teaching Staff Records

This new collection comprises 5,140 staff records from the Royal School of Needlework. A mix of records, some with no first name, some with a home address.

Royal School Of Needlework Student Records

3,441 records, spanning 1895 to 1944. Was your person of interest judged Excellent, Very Good, or Good?

Newspapers

Three new titles are added to the newspaper archive this week and updates to 22 existing publications, a total of 266,842 pages added. Note the long run of the Aberdeen Press and Journal, starting in 1748, and Lloyd’s List with a broken run, starting in 1801, to 1919.

New titles:

  • Highbridge and Burnham Gazette, 1874, 1877
  • Musician of the Salvation Army, 1897–1985
  • Portadown Express and County Armagh Advertiser, 1906–1920

Updated titles:

  • Aberdeen Press and Journal, 1748–1959, 1963–2008
  • Argyllshire Advertiser, 1887–1888, 1974–1975, 1986, 1988–1994
  • Banffshire Advertiser, 1881–1902, 1905–1982, 1986–1989
  • Bicycling News, 1877, 1885–1887, 1890–1893
  • Birmingham Weekly Mercury, 1889, 1897, 1912, 1918–1921, 1923–1945, 1947–1999, 2001–2003, 2005
  • Blyth News Post Leader, 1986–2004
  • Catholic Standard, 1933–1963
  • Church in the West, 1885–1886, 1888, 1890–1891
  • Co-operative News, 1876, 1881, 1885, 1887–1888, 1890–1891, 1893
  • Doncaster Chronicle, 1889, 1950
  • East Cumberland News, 1898, 1900–1901
  • Hertford Mercury and Reformer, 1834–1837, 1840–1889, 1897, 1913, 1916–1918, 1939, 1950, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1963–1967, 1980–1999, 2002, 2004–2005
  • Isle of Wight County Press, 1884–1919
  • Knutsford Guardian, 1911–1913, 1919
  • Lloyd’s List, 1801–1884, 1887–1890, 1892–1894, 1896–1919
  • Macclesfield Express, 1981–2003
  • Nation and The Athenaeum, 1907–1931
  • Pink (Newcastle), 1987–1990, 1993–1999
  • Shipping World and Herald of Commerce, 1883–1918
  • St. Mary Cray & Swanley Express, 1900–1917
  • Uxbridge Leader, 1986–2005
  • Wokingham Times, 1931–1942, 1944–1958, 1977–1981, 1983–1999, 2001–2002

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