Wide range of clerical records newly released

If your ancestor held a prominent position in a religious organisation then you may find them in amongst a number of recent releases at TheGenealogist.co.uk. The new records include:

• The Year Book of the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada 1926 & 1935. This contains the details of members of clergy in Canada.
• New Zealand Methodist Union Index 1913, listing details of Methodist ministers and their placements in New Zealand up to 1912.
• Catholic Directory 1867 & 1877 – directories of Catholic Clergy with addresses for England, Scotland and Wales.
• Biographical Dictionary of English Catholics 1534 to 1885 – this work by Joseph Gillow gives biographies of prominent Catholics which often include details of their family, education and achievements.
• Shropshire Roman Catholic Registers 1763-1837.
• The Roman Catholics in the County of York 1604.
• Various Catholic Record Society volumes – these include a variety of interesting records including various Catholic Church registers, memoirs and letters of prominent Catholics and Recusant Rolls.
• Jewish Year Books 1896-99, 1901-8, 1910-11, 1918-21, 1925, and 1928-39 – these year books list the details of prominent people within each synagogue, obituaries, Jewish officers in the Army, Navy and Auxiliary Forces, Ministers, MPs, Peers, and Jewish ‘celebrities’ of the time.
• Jewish Synagogue Seatholders in London for 1920, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1937.
• The Clergyman’s Almanack 1821 & 1822 – these list archbishops, bishops, dignitaries, MPs and peers.
• Register of Missionaries 1796-1923, a register of the missionaries and deputations of the London Society of Missionaries. This book includes many details about each missionary, as well as listing their wives (including their maiden names).
• Durham Diocesan Calendar 1931.

These records compliment an already wide range of religious occupational records such as Cox’s Clergy Lists and Crockford’s Clerical Directories, Jewish Seatholders, Catholic Registers and Directories on TheGenealogist.

Diamond subscribers can access these records by going to the Search tab on the home page then scrolling down to Occupational Records.

Nuneaton and North Warks records online

Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society has been working with data website TheGenealogist.co.uk to publish its records online for the first time, making 454,525 individuals from baptism, marriage and burial records now fully searchable.

“The officers of Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society are delighted to be working with The Genealogist to bring their collection of baptism, marriage and burial transcriptions for north Warwickshire online,“ said John Parton, the society’s chairman.

With some of the surviving records reaching back into the 1700s this is an excellent resource for family historians to use for discovering Nuneaton & North Warwickshire ancestors. The records consist of more than 300,000 baptisms, 90,000 individuals getting married and 60,000 burials. Among them, for example, are the baptism of Mary Anne Evans in Chilvers Coton – she was later famous as the novelist George Eliot.

The records are also available on TheGenealogist’s society website FHS-Online.co.uk, where societies get 100% of the income.

“This new initiative will provide for those researchers preferring online access, while allowing us to continue offering the data on CD. NNWFHS members have opportunity to take out an enhanced subscription which includes access to the data,“ Mr Parton added.

This is an ongoing project with the society working on transcribing many more records. If your own family history society is interested in publishing records online, please see fhs-online.co.uk .