Anglo-Celtic Connections

The focus this week is on the London area.

Over 18,000 additional Middlesex Baptism records have been added to this collection, from the parishes of New Brentford, Tottenham and Edmonton.  The total collection now has 539,579 entries between 1538 and 1919.

A further 23,000 baptism transcripts have been added to Surrey Baptisms for the parishes of Lambeth, Stockwell, St Mary Magdalene Bermondsey and Walworth. The 1,846,249 in the collection stretch from 1530 to 1919.

Around 8,000 new records have been added to the Greater London Burial Index, mostly for Ealing which now accounts for 31.649 of the 2,084,920 records in the collection. There areentries as early as 1397, as late as 2004, with the bulk in the first half of the 19th century.

The latest post on The National Archives Blog looks at people with names you probably recognize, entertainers, born just in time to be in the 1921 census for England and Wales.

There’s a list of other prominent people born in the UK in 1921 here. Are there any in a field of interest to you and can you find them in that census? They would need to be born by census day — 19 June.

This collection, sourced from  BAnQ, contains 63,553 records from 1813 to 1864.

The transcription record typically includes name, year and place of birth, date and place of incarceration, offence, sentence, date of discharge, and age at the time of discharge. Many are for short periods, just a couple of days, petty crimes. Records for more extended imprisonment may include additional information.

MyHeritage just released, free to all registered users, a photo tagger facility. Presently available on the mobile app for Android and iOS (and coming on the website), given that you’ve tagged individuals in a certain number of photos it will find them in other photos you upload through facial recognition.

Toronto-based Uri Gonen explains the feature in a 30-minute video. including some of the privacy protections the company has instituted.

In case you missed it, Ancestry last month introduced a colourization capability for black and white photos. Find out about it here.

 

Choose from free online events in the next five days. All times are ET except as noted. Those in red are Canadian, bolded if local to Ottawa or recommended. Assume registration in advance is required; check so you’re not disappointed.

Tuesday 26 July 2 pm: OGS Ottawa Branch Virtual Genealogy Drop-in. 
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/virtual-genealogy-drop-in-2-2022-07-12/

Tuesday 26 July 2 pm: Organizing and tagging photos with the MyHeritage mobile app, by Uri Gonen for Legacy Family Tree Webinars. https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/organizing-my-photos-at-myheritage/

Tuesday 26 July 2:30 pm: Building a Bridge Between Generations, by Daniel Loftus for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. https://acpl.libnet.info/event/6645258

Friday 29 July 9 am: Domesday in the public record, by Jessica Nelson for The National Archives (UK). https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/domesday-in-the-public-record-tickets-350471278027

Friday 29 July 2:30 pm: What Official Records Exist About Your Scottish Ancestors? Searching Scotland Government Vital Records, by Erika Ward for BYU Family History Library.
Join by Zoom link, no reservation required: us02web.zoom.us/j/85924684291?pwd=NkRweDZ0WG9LK01LNm1iTmp4MUNKQ

It’s taken a while for the August issue of FT to come online through PressReader.

I’ve only scanned the issue so copy the table of contents below. There’s a good article on gravestones by Dave Annal, speaker at the coming BIFHSGO conference. Another by previous BIFHSGO conference speaker Chris Paton is of relevance for those with ancestors of the Scottish persuasion.

The genealogy stars shine brightly at this year’s BIFHSGO conference. They’re gathered together in four constellations.

First, on Wednesday, 28 September, two of the presentations are of particular Welsh interest: Migration and Wales by Gill Thomas and Researching Welsh Ancestry by Derek Blount. They follow My ancestor was a liar: ignorance, half-truths or wilful deceit? by Dave Annal. All our ancestors lied, even the ones that weren’t politicians!

To wrap up the first day, we return to Ottawa for The Journey to Genealogy Services at Ādisōke by Melissa Black (OPL), Robyn FeresCameron (LAC), Julie Roy (LAC).

The conference is spread out over four days. See the full schedule in pdf here.

It can be frustrating if information comes to us too quickly. BIFHSGO has arranged the schedule, so a 30-minute break follows each 60-minute talk.

Keep coming back to the blog for further details, including on some of the individual presentations,

Ancestry has released over 1.8 million additions to these extensive Greater London collections from the original registers deposited at London Metropolitan Archives and those formerly held by the Guildhall Library Manuscripts section. Records are from over 10,000 Church of England parish registers (including Bishop’s Transcripts).

London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 – 2,780,380 records.
The collection also includes registers of deaths and burials in workhouses operated by the Boards of Guardians covering 1834-1906. There are 46,428 records added since August 2021.

London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 – 18,018,976 records
This data collection contains baptism and burial records from 1538-1812 and marriage records from 1538-1753. That’s an additional 916,093 records since August 2021.

London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 – 13,835,348 records
This collection has been updated since May last year when it had 13,530,740 records with the addition of those for 1937 and 1938. The addition is 209,253 records.

London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1921 – 22,773,296 records.
This collection also includes registers of births and baptisms in workhouses operated by the Boards of Guardians.  An additional year, 1921, has been added since August last year, with 672,913 added records.

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

Baby names: why we all choose the same ones

Yorkshire, Sheffield, Air Raid Casualties, 1940-1941
FNP added an index of 659 casualties this week.

New Interactive Map and Timeline Added to Chronicling America
Library and Archives Canada could look here for inspiration.

WDYTYA on Sunday 7 pm on CTV – Allison Janney

I have literally waited all my life for this moment… pic.twitter.com/bsOkg4r0kr

— CBDude (@CBDHempFarmer) July 17, 2022

Thanks to this week’s contributors. Anonymous, Teresa, Unknown

This week, nearly 100,000 records from the West Riding of Yorkshire are added from the Family History Federation’s National Burial Index.

These additions are for 19 parishes — All Saints, St Mary, St Peter, Wesleyan Chapel, Nethertown United Reformed, St Paul, St Michael, Baptist Church, St Peter, St James, Bankshill, Bruntcliffe Lane Cemetery, Old Chapel, Queens St Wesleyan Methodist, Rehoboth Congregational, St Mary in the Wood, St Peter (Morley). Holy Trinity and St Mary (Woodkirk). They cover 1737-1954.

The burial records are derived from parish registers, bishop’s transcripts, earlier transcripts or printed registers by local family history society volunteers

The NBI now includes 12 million burial records from across England and Wales, although coverage is far from complete. Some counties, like Cornwall, are missing. There’s a listing of coverage by parish here.

Earlier this month in Sunday Sundries I gave a shoutout to this project about railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland from the late 1880s to 1939. At the time the database documented 3,914 deaths. Information on another 17,000 British and Irish railway worker accidents between 1900 and 1939 has now been released, it’s free.

“The new data adds railway staff accident reports produced by the railway inspectors employed by the British state. Our initial coverage included 1911-1915; we’ve now filled in the gaps, to cover 1900-1910, and 1921-1939 (there’s a gap in coverage due to the First World War; nothing before 1900, and after 1939 the reports change and aren’t publicly available). Even with the 17,000 cases, this is only a fraction – around 3% – of all railway staff accidents at this time; most weren’t investigated by the state officials.

The accidents were spread around the UK and Ireland: nearly 13,000 cases in England, just over 3,000 in Scotland, about 900 in Wales and a little over 300 on the island of Ireland; not forgetting the sole case from the Channel Islands!

Around 4,500 of these incidents were fatalities; the rest injuries, varying considerably in extent and harm inflicted. Men feature more heavily than women – indeed, only 34 accidents to women were investigated by the state inspectors. The ages covered range from 7 to 82. And whilst most people included were railway employees, by no means all were: nearly 800 cases were investigated in which a non-employee was harmed.”

Read more at www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/names-still-spoken-our-new-data-release/ and/or download the spreadsheet

Airmen Died In The Second World War, 1939-1946
Documents nearly 129,000 service personnel who died whilst serving under Royal Air Force control or with their own national air services during the Second World. “The first comprehensive and detailed record to be published of all British, Commonwealth, Dominion and European Allied airmen who died while under Royal Air Force control or with their own national air services during the Second World War.”

Here’s a sample.

First name(s) Henry Eric
Last name Maudslay
Age 21
Birth year 1922
Service number –
Rank Squadron Leader
Function pilot
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit or regiment 617 Squadron
Death year 1943
War Second World War, 1939-1945
Command Bomber Cmnd
Aircraft type Lancaster III
Aircraft serial ED937
Base Scampton, Lincs
Burial place or memorial Reichswald Forest War Cem, Germany
Cause of death Killed in Action
Death date 17/05/1943
Honours DFC
Native of Broadway, Worcs
Notes Damaged by its own bomb and shot down by flak at Klein-Netterden near Emmerich when returning from the Eder Dam during Operation Chastise
Record set Airmen Died In The Second World War, 1939-1946
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Subcategory Second World War
Collections from Great Britain, UK None

Bomber Command Losses 1939-1945
“Of the 125,000 Aircrew who served in Bomber Command during the Second Wold War, nearly three quarters were killed, seriously injured or taken Prisoner of War and over 40 per cent were killed whilst serving, giving the highest rate of attrition of any Allied unit. Each man was a volunteer, and their average age of death was only 23.”

Here’s a sample.

First name(s) Henry Eric
Last name Maudslay
Birth year 1922
Age 21
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Squadron number 617
Rank Squadron Leader
Service number 62275
Year 1943
Death year 1943
Father first name Reginald Walter
Mother first name Susan Gwendolen
Cemetery memorial Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Death date 17 May 1943
Next of kin Son of Reginald Walter and Susan Gwendolen Maudslay, of Broadway, Worcestershire.
Rank as transcribed S/L
Trade Pilot
Url View source website
Record set Bomber Command Losses 1939-1945
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Subcategory Second World War
Collections from Great Britain, England