Browse burials from across England and Wales
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By Daisy Goddard | May 1, 2026
Uncover new stories with over 800,000 new records this week.
This week's new additions help you to chart the final chapter of your ancestors' lives in vivid detail. With new burials and probate records, uncover where they were laid to rest and what they left behind.
Durham Diocese Probate Index, 1663-1869
These 566,645 new additions cover over 200 years.
National Burial Index for England & Wales
We updated our burial records collection this week, with 223,246 new additions spanning back as far as 1538.
Cumberland and Lancashire Burials
But our burial record updates don't end there. In partnership with the Cumbria Family History Society, we've published over 80,000 burial records, which sit within our Cumberland Burials and Lancashire Burials record sets. These additions are from 46 locations across the region, and cover the 17th to the 20th century.
New pages from Portsmouth to Putney
340,466 pages joined our newspaper archive this week, with five new titles and updates to 21 existing publications.
New titles:
- English Chartist Circular, 1841-1843
- English Leader, 1866-1867
- Grimsby Advertiser, 1861-1887
- Putney & Wandsworth Borough News, 1885-1895
- Wearside Catholic News, 1907-1908, 1914-1934
Updated titles:
- Bookseller, 1979, 1989-1990, 1992, 1995
- Coventry Evening Telegraph, 2003-2004
- Crediton Gazette, 1882
- Crewe Chronicle, 2002-2005
- Deeside Piper, 1995-2004
- Dundee Weekly News, 1885, 1893-1950
- Fife Herald, 2001-2005
- Forest Gate Gazette and Upton Chronicle, 1889-1894, 1896-1902
- Govan Press and Weekly Advertiser for Govan & Kinning Park, 1884-1888, 1890
- Mining Journal, 1845-1856
- Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette, 1898, 1900-1910, 1912-1913, 1921-1928
- Reynolds’s Newspaper, 1950-1962
- Roscommon Messenger, 1871-1886, 1888-1903
- Shields Daily Gazette, 1919
- Smethwick Telephone, 1934, 1939-1940, 1951-1962
- South Wales Echo, 2001-2002
- Southern Times and Dorset County Herald, 1930-1938
- Southport Visiter, 2002
- Sporting Post, 1924-1928, 1930-1946, 1948-1950
- Talking Machine News, 1908-1928
- Usk Observer, 1867-1874, 1880-1895, 1897-1908
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