New additions from Northamptonshire and beyond

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By Daisy Goddard | April 17, 2026

Explore baptisms, burials and divorce records this week.

We've added over 400,000 records to four collections this week. If you've got ancestors from Northamptonshire, you may discover a familiar name or two within new baptisms, burials and child infirmary records spanning from the 15th to the 19th centuries.

Northampton Infirmary Child Patients, 1744-1801

These 4,210 new records tell the story of children who were in Northampton's infirmary between 1744 and 1801.

Northamptonshire Burials

If your ancestor was buried in Northamptonshire between 1543 and 1858, their name may appear within these 63,258 records.

Northamptonshire Baptisms

We've also added 41,688 Northamptonshire baptism records this week, spanning the 16th to the 19th centuries.

England & Wales, Divorce Court Index

Our collection of English and Welsh divorce records has also grown, with 296,824 additions covering 1858-1937.

New pages from Folkestone to Fife

526,032 pages joined our archive this week, with seven new additions and updates to 28 existing titles.

New titles:

Common Good, 1880-1881
Fairplay, 1883-1914
Gourock Times, 1915-1966
Llangollen Advertiser, 1869-1872, 1874-1886, 1889-1896
Rugby Observer, 1911-1939
Sheffield Free Press, 1851-1857
Sound Wave, 1907-1933

Updated titles:

Barnsley Telephone, 1904–1910, 1913–1917
Cambridge Daily News, 2003
Colne Valley Guardian, 1908–1910, 1912–1943, 1951–1966
Commercial Daily List (London), 1839, 1841–1868
Crawley News, 2000–2002
Crosby Herald, 2000, 2003
Daily Telegraph & Courier (London), 1855–1868, 1916–1919
Dundalk Examiner and Louth Advertiser, 1881–1883, 1885–1892, 1894–1901, 1916–1929
Eastern Evening News, 1912–1918
Ellesmere Port Pioneer, 2002
Fife Herald, 1996–2000
Folkestone Chronicle, 1893–1896, 1898–1906
Highland News, 1994
Inverness Courier, 1993–1994
John o’ Groat Journal, 1985, 1995–1999
Kelso Chronicle, 1882
Kington Times, 1960–1964
Liverpool Shipping Telegraph and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1877–1879, 1881–1884
Lloyd’s List, 1914
Northern Scot and Moray & Nairn Express, 1986–1999
Ripley Advertiser, 1864–1872, 1875, 1879–1880, 1883–1884, 1886–1887, 1889, 1891–1892, 1894–1898, 1900–1912, 1916–1917
Roscommon Journal, and Western Impartial Reporter, 1865–1925, 1927
Southern Echo, 1913–1919
Southwark and Bermondsey Recorder, 1885–1902
Stafford & Stone Chronicle, 1986, 1988–1989, 1992–2004
Tamworth Herald, 2001
Wakefield Express, 1996–2004
Yorkshire Evening Post, 1987–1989

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