Uncover Cornwall connections

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By Daisy Goddard | October 18, 2024

This week, there's almost a million new parish records to discover.

If you've got ancestors from the South Western English county of Cornwall, this week's new records may contain the details you've been hunting for. We've bolstered our Cornwall baptism, marriage and burial collections with 961,616 additional records.

We've also added one of Britain's oldest magazines to our newspaper archive - there is so much to explore.

Cornwall Baptisms

Our Cornwall baptism collection has grown by 329,708 records this week with new additions spanning from 1571 to 1976.

Cornwall Marriages

We've also updated our Cornwall marriages with 283,358 new records ready for you to explore.

Cornwall Burials

Rounding off this week's trio of parish updates, we've added 348,550 burial records from the county of Cornwall.

Updates to The Field and more...

There are 169,756 new newspaper pages to explore this week, with 14 of our existing titles updated.

Field, 14 April 1906.

But that's not all - we also added pages from Field, one of the nation's oldest magazines, to our collection, and added a brand new title.

New titles:

Worksop Guardian, 1896, 1898

Updated titles:

Banbury Guardian, 1990, 1998, 2000
Bedfordshire Times and Independent, 1996, 2002
Derry Journal, 1998-1999
Driffield Times, 1994, 2000-2001
Field, 1977-2009
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 1991, 2001
Horncastle News, 1942-1944, 1950-1952
Leamington Spa Courier, 1977-1979, 1981
Mid Sussex Times, 1979-1980, 1990, 1992
Shields Daily Gazette, 1992, 1999
Shropshire Star, 1986
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 1992
West Sussex County Times, 1972, 1988, 1990-1991
Wolverhampton Express and Star, 1992-1993

No story left behind

As Remembrance Day approaches, discover and honour forgotten soldiers, wartime women and your relatives’ part in shaping the world we know today.

Search free records

To help you find and commemorate your ancestors’ stories, we’ve made some essential First World War family and military records FREE to explore until 21 October.

Coming up on the Family History Show...

Join Ellie and Liam for the Family History Show this Friday at 4pm BST. They'll be discussing A House Through Time and how you can uncover your family's forgotten heroes in the lead-up to Remembrance Day.