Findmypast Friday: Uncover the Experiences of Your Londoner Ancestors

 I received this information from Findmypast today:

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There are new trade registers and workhouse records to search this Findmypast Friday.

This week, we bolstered our collection with a brand new set of trade registers and a substantial update to our Southwark workhouse records. These latest additions span almost 300 years.

Surrey, Southwark, Licenses and Trade Registers

Spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries, this set comprises 25,361 licence and trade register records from Southwark.

Surrey, Southwark, St George The Martyr Workhouse Records

If your English ancestors spent time in Southwark's St George the Martyr Workhouse, their name may appear within this updated collection, to which 63,448 new records have been added.

New pages from Hackney to Hastings

202,482 pages joined our newspaper archive this week, with five new publications and eleven titles updated. Here's everything that's been added.

New titles:

• Children’s Newspaper, 1957
• Hackney Mercury, 1896–1910
• Nottinghamshire Weekly Express, 1886–1888, 1890–1895, 1900–1917
• Queenstown Gazette, 1851
• Swanage and Wareham Guardian, 1890–1895, 1898–1909, 1913–1919

Updated titles:

• Dublin Evening Mail, 1872-1874
• Evening Freeman, 1847, 1850
• Farmer’s Gazette and Journal of Practical Horticulture, 1871-1887, 1890-1896
• Freeman’s Journal, 1769-1770, 1772-1774
• Hastings & St. Leonards Advertiser, 1863-1864, 1869, 1876, 1880, 1908-1909, 1911-1912, 1916-1918
• Linlithgowshire Gazette, 1954-1966, 1968-1980, 1986-1989, 1991, 1993
• Morning Advertiser, 1877-1888, 1890-1891, 1896-1898
• Northern Scot and Moray & Nairn Express, 1917-1946, 1948-1978, 1980-1985, 1987
• Police Gazette, 1914-1915
• South Wales Daily News, 1911
• Weekly Freeman’s Journal, 1821-1831, 1838-1840

More on this topic:         english records

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