Search England, Newspaper Death Notices

Each record includes a thin index and the original newspaper announcement. The index is meant as a finding aid and you should always click through to the image of the announcement to see fuller details. The amount of information listed varies greatly according to newspaper and date, but the records usually include a combination of the following information:

• Name
• Age
• Death date
• Residence
• Name of relative
• Publication title
• Publication date

Explore this collection of newspaper death reports and obituaries to unearth interesting or undiscovered stories about your ancestors. Discover how deaths were originally announced in the press. These records also include “in memoriam” notices published at significant anniversaries of the death. All notices were paid announcements usually written by a family member and sent to the newspaper; the fact that they had to be paid for will have influenced the phrasing and length of announcements.

Periodicals included in this collection are the following:

Alnwick Mercury

Aris's Birmingham Gazette

Bath Chronicle

Bedfordshire Advertiser and Luton Times

Berrow's Worcester Journal

Berwickshire News and General Advertiser

Birmingham Daily Post

Birmingham Journal

Bristol Mercury

Burnley Advertiser

Burnley Express and Advertiser

Burnley Express and East Lancashire Observer

Bury Times

Cambridge Chronicle and Universe

Carlisle Patriot or Carlisle & Cumberland Advertiser

Cheltenham Chronicle

Cheltenham County Looker

Chester Courant

City Press

County of Middlesex Chronicle

Coventry Herald and Free Press

Coventry Times

Coventry Times and Nuneaton, Warwick & Leamington Journal

Derby Daily Telegraph

Derby Evening Telegraph

Devon & Exeter Gazette

Dover Express

Essex Newsman

Essex Newsman & Herald

Evening Telegraph and Star and Sheffield Daily Times

Exeter Daily Gazette

Exeter Weekly Times and West of England General Advertiser

Gloucestershire Echo

Grantham Journal

Greenwich, Woolwich, Deptford & West Kent Gazette

Hastings & St Leonards Observer and Advertiser

Hereford Journal

Hereford Times

Hull Daily Mail

Huntingdon, Bedford, and Peterborough Gazette

Kentish Chronicle and Canterbury Weekly News

Kentish Chronicle and General Advertiser

Leicester Chronicle

Leicester Journal and Midland Counties General Advertiser

Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury

Lincolnshire Chronicle

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool Mercury

Luton Times and Advertiser

Luton Times and Advertiser for South Beds & North Herts

Luton Times and Dunstable Herald

Maidstone Telegraph and Rochester & Chatham Gazette

Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser

Manchester Evening News

Midland Daily Telegraph

Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury

Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette

North & South Shields Daily Gazette and Shipping Telegraph

North & South Shields Gazette and Northumberland & Durham Advertiser

Northern Daily Mail and South Durham Herald

Pope's Bath Chronicle

Pope's Bath Chronicle and Weekly

Reading Mercury, Oxford Gazette and Berkshire County Paper

Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard

Salisbury and Winchester Journal

Salopian Journal

Sheffield and Rotherham Independent

Sheffield Daily Telegraph

Sheldrake's Aldershot Military Gazette

Somerset County Herald and Taunton Courier

Staffordshire Advertiser

Staffordshire Sentinel

Surrey Mirror, Reigate and Redhill Reporter and General County Advertiser

Sussex Advertiser, Surrey Gazette and West Kent Courier

Tamworth Herald

Taunton Courier

Wells Journal

West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser

West Kent Guardian

West Middlesex Advertiser

Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror

Western Flying Post

Western Gazette

Western Morning News

Western Times

Wiltshire Independent

Windsor & Eton Express

Worcestershire Chronicle

Wright's Leeds Intelligencer

York Herald

Yorkshire Gazette

Yorkshire Telegraph and Star