Findmypast Friday: Discover Stories from Somerset and Beyond

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There are new baptisms, marriages and burials to explore this week.

This week, we bolstered our parish records collection with 26,273 new additions from the county of Somerset. 288,672 pages also joined our newspaper archive - there are more stories than ever to explore.

Somerset Baptisms

We've added 10,440 new baptism records for Somerset, spanning three centuries.

Somerset Marriages

We've also bolstered our Somerset marriage record collection, with 8,472 new additions.

Somerset Burials

Rounding off this week's trio of parish additions, we've also updated our Somerset Burials collection, with 7,811 records spanning 1500 to the late 1800s.

New pages from Belfast to Bishop's Castle

288,672 pages joined our newspaper collection this week, with 15 new titles and updates to 43 existing publications.

New titles

• Belfast Linen Trade Circular, 1857, 1885
• Bishop’s Castle Advertiser and Clun News, 1901–1918
• Bishop’s Castle Chronicle & Clun Valley Times, 1911
• Bladud, 1885–1887, 1893
• Bridgnorth Beacon and South Shropshire Advertiser, 1852–1854
• Bridgnorth Weekly News, 1856
• Cashel Sentinel, 1889–1896
• Devon Post, 1872–1874, 1878, 1880, 1882–1899, 1901–1910
• Ironbridge Weekly Journal and Borough of Wenlock Advertiser, 1869–1875, 1877–1882
• Midland Sporting News, 1878, 1882
• Oswestry Herald, 1820, 1822
• Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Times, 1863–1864
• Shropshire Mercury, 1840
• The World, 1917–1922
• Whitehaven Herald and Cumberland Advertiser, 1831–1872

Updated titles

• Armagh Guardian, 1880, 1882–1886, 1910–1916, 1918–1919, 1931, 1940, 1943, 1945–1946, 1954–1959
• Banffshire Advertiser, 1920–1923, 1925–1929, 1939–1949, 1960–1969, 1980
• Banffshire Herald, 1919–1969
• Blaydon Courier, 1905–1909, 1920–1928, 1940–1949
• Bridgnorth Journal, 1854–1855, 1857–1863, 1901–1909, 1911–1949, 1951–1952
• Brighton Standard and Fashionable Visitors’ List, 1878, 1880–1881, 1886, 1888–1889
• Cannock Advertiser, 1878–1893, 1897, 1920, 1951–1955
• Coalville Times, 1918–1949, 1952–1961
• Dorset County Chronicle, 1881, 1885, 1892
• Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1993
• Eddowes’s Shrewsbury Journal, 1849–1859, 1872
• Edinburgh Evening Post and Scottish Standard, 1845, 1850–1855, 1857
• Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette, 1872, 1874–1876, 1878–1883
• Farmer’s Gazette and Journal of Practical Horticulture, 1888–1889
• Felixstowe Times, 1963–1965
• Fort-William News, 1899
• Glasgow Citizen, 1846, 1849–1854, 1856–1857, 1859
• Glasgow Constitutional, 1844, 1846–1848, 1850–1851, 1854
• Glasgow Gazette, 1853, 1855–1857, 1860, 1862
• Glasgow Mercantile Advertiser, 1880, 1883–1884, 1887–1891
• Hampshire Chronicle, 1880, 1910, 1912–1918
• Hastings & St. Leonards Advertiser, 1863, 1885, 1888, 1892, 1910, 1915
• Home News for India, China and the Colonies, 1879–1880
• Isle of Man Times, 1896, 1938, 1970–1974
• Kent Herald, 1853–1870
• Kirriemuir Free Press and Angus Advertiser, 1961–1965
• Linlithgowshire Gazette, 1990, 1994–1999
• Ludlow Advertiser, 1893
• Morning Post, 1916–1917
• Munster Express, 1860–1868
• Newport & Market Drayton Advertiser, 1864–1868, 1911, 1927, 1941–1952, 1986–2002, 2004
• Oswestry Advertiser, 1882–1883, 1898, 1912
• Pawnbrokers’ Gazette, 1838, 1840–1849, 1860–1868, 1870–1894, 1929
• Shrewsbury Chronicle, 1950
• Shropshire Star, 1965–1985
• St. Marylebone and Paddington Record, 1920–1925, 1927–1929, 1940–1949
• Torquay Directory and South Devon Journal, 1876–1877, 1881, 1889, 1892, 1913–1918
• Walsall Free Press and General Advertiser, 1883–1895, 1898–1903
• Wellington Journal, 1911, 1965–1966
• Welsh Gazette, 1953, 1960–1964
• Wetherby News, 1999
• Whitby Gazette, 1998
• Wolverhampton Express and Star, 2004

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