This week, FMP adds over 1.1 million records from Essex and Suffolk, plus new newspaper pages.
Essex Marriages and Banns, 1537–1935
Over one million marriage and banns records from Essex, transcribed from records held by the Essex Record Office. Original record images are not linked. Each entry typically includes names, residences, occupations, marriage dates and places, fathers’ names, and witnesses.
Suffolk Hearth Tax Lists, 1662–1675
This new collection has more than 100,000 Hearth tax returns transcriptions, no images, from Restoration-era Suffolk, levied twice yearly based on the number of hearths in a property. These lists name taxpayers and those exempted due to poverty, recording the number of hearths, an indicator of wealth and property size.
Newspapers
FMP gets its newspapers from the sister site, the British Newspaper Archive. This week’s five new BNA titles are Wedding Bells (1893), Irish Railway Gazette (1844-1850), Hour Glass (1895-1909), Democrat (1890-1891), and Blackpool Magpie (1879). The largest addition is the Belfast Telegraph with 153,174 pages from 1986 to 1999.