Findmypast has released thousands of court, institution, hospital and asylum records for Yorkshire, England.
Yorkshire, Sheffield Crime Courts and Convicts 1769-1931
This collection includes 206,000 records from over 162 years, with details from a variety of original documents transcribed by Sheffield Archives and Local Studies.
Yorkshire, Sheffield Social and Institutional Records 1558-1939
This new collection covers 381 years of history, and include details like lists of paupers between 1751 and 1808, removal orders between 1701 and 1844, and even corn loan guarantors from 1795. You’ll normally find names, ages, occupations, and even a few other details peppered in.
Yorkshire, Sheffield, Asylum & Hospital Admissions & Subscriptions 1748-1937
The last new collection this week covers nearly 200 years, with records such as admission registers and casebooks. Depending on the record type, you’ll typically see an ancestor’s name, birth year, event year and occupation.
Newspapers
In addition to the Yorkshire records, Findmypast added 10 new newspaper titles and updated 28 titles.
These are the new titles:
- Chicago Citizen, 1890-1897
- Derby Exchange Gazette, 1861
- Falkirk Express,1882
- Harrogate Advertiser and Weekly List of the Visitors,1865, 1877, 1880, 1889
- Liverpool Shipping Telegraph and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1846-1849, 1851-1872, 1874-1876, 1880, 1885-1897, 1899
- Loughton and District Advertiser,1887
- Medway News, 1994
- National Advertiser and Edinburgh and Glasgow Gazette, 1848
- National Independent and People’s Advocate,1878
- Plymouth Mail, 1861
Learn more about the Yorkshire records and see the list of updated newspaper titles in Findmypast’s blog post.
