The following announcement was written by Findmypast:
With new and exclusive records from New York, Shropshire and Yorkshire, where will your past take you this weekend? Here’s what’s new on Findmypast this week.
New York Catholic Parish Registers Browse
You can now explore this important collection page-by-page along with recent new additions from Harlem, The Bronx, Yonkers and Ulster County. Over 244,000 Images taken from microfilm and original registers from over 200 parishes are available to browse.
Including births, baptisms, marriages, confirmations, communions and deaths, these exclusive records are an excellent resource for tracing your Catholic roots. As well as providing essential dates and locations, many records will also reveal the names of your ancestor’s parents (including mother’s maiden name) or spouse.
Check the parish list to see which churches’ records are only available in this browsable resource. And remember, if you’re looking for a specific record, you can also search for baptisms and marriages.
Shropshire Quarter Sessions Rolls Index, 1831-1920
Exclusive to Findmypast, discover if your Shropshire ancestors faced their local judge in these new court indexes. A wide variety of administrative record types are included, such as appointments, bastardy papers, inquests, oaths of allegiance and petitions, as well as the whole panoply of records surrounding criminal cases.
Each record consists of a transcript that, along with the defendants name and the date of their hearing, provide all the information required to identify a specific record within this time period. The original documents can only be consulted at the Shropshire Archives.
To help you make the most of the records, Findmypast have compiled this handy list with each document type, their abbreviations and a brief description on where you’ll find them.
Yorkshire, Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse Admissions 1883-1915
Covering parts of Yorkshire and Derbyshire, this collection can help you trace relatives on the breadline. In these transcripts, you’ll discover birth dates, occupations, dates of admission and more. The index has been created by the Sheffield District Family History Society who have transcribed original admission registers held by the Sheffield Archives.
The Ecclesall Bierlow workhouse was first built at the Sharrow Moor. It originally housed between 60 to 80 inmates but expanded significantly over time to include an asylum block, vagrants’ wards, laundry block, and children’s cottage homes. It also had space for boys’ training workshops in tailoring and shoemaking. By 1896 it could house up to 600 inmates and admitted roughly 5,000 each year with a weekly average of 100 admissions.
Newspapers
Findmypast’s local newspaper archives continue to grow. Brand new to the collection this week are:
- Haslingden Gazette covering 1910-1911
- Denton and Haughton Examiner covering 1890-1892
While additional papers have been added to nine existing titles, including:
- Liverpool Daily Post from 1885
- Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser from 1892
- North Cumberland Reformer from 1895
- Liverpool Weekly Courier from 1899
- Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express from 1918
- Middlesex Chronicle from 1989, 1991-1996 and 1998-1999
- Evening News (London) from 1881-1886
- Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald from 1978
- Kinematograph Weekly from 1926