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SoG St Andrew Holborn marriage data now on British Origins
The Society of Genealogists is pleased to announce that its project to index the parish registers of St Andrew Holborn in London has been published on the British Origins website.
The church of St Andrew Holborn is the largest of Sir Christopher Wren's London parish churches and stands at the western end of Holborn Viaduct by Holborn Circus. It also served one of the biggest parishes in London (it actually spanned the boundary of London and Middlesex) out of which five new parishes were eventually formed. The registers are large and contain many thousands of entries, as the parish has always been a popular place to marry. More significantly, the entries from the marriage registers do not appear on the International Genealogical Index or in Boyd's Marriage Index. Pallot's Marriage index has entries for 1780-1837 but these give only year and omit many of the details from the original registers. It is for these reasons that, in 2003, the Society of Genealogists decided to embark a project to transcribe and index the registers.
The index for the period 1754-1812, comprising 18,724 marriages and around 92,000 names, is now available online.
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Earlier and later data will follow in due course.
This data is available to SoG members free of charge as part of their quarterly access to the British Origins site.
Else Churchill
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23 September 2008
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Press Notice - FINDMYPAST.COM EXTENDS ONLINE PARISH RECORDS COLLECTION
Online access to millions of nationwide parish marriage records pre- dating the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths
UK family history website findmypast.com today announced it has added 3.2 million marriage records to its Parish Records Collection. The new parish records, dating back to 1538, join the 15 million burial records already available to search on the site.
The Parish Records Collection brings together in one easy-to-search central place the disparate records from local parishes, which have been collated by local family history societies since 1911, coordinated by the Federation of Family History Societies.
The registers are particularly valuable sources of information for people seeking to research their family tree back further than the civil records of birth, marriage and death, which began in 1837, and the nineteenth century censuses.
Easy to search
Thanks to the cross-database search facility at findmypast.com, you will be able to search for your ancestor by surname across all the parish records on the site without needing to know where in the country they came from, helping people to delve even deeper into their ancestors' pasts.
Famous people in the parish marriage records
Among the famous names recorded in the parish marriages is writer Charles John Huffam Dickens, whose marriage to Catherine Thomson Hogarth took place in Chelsea on 2 April 1836, just one year prior to civil registration in England and Wales.
In the same year, on 5 July, engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel's marriage to Mary Elizabeth Horsley is shown in Kensington.
Both records have been contributed by the West Middlesex Family History Society.
Debra Chatfield, Marketing Manager at findmypast.com said: "The parish registers are an essential resource for anyone trying to trace their ancestors back to the early sixteenth century. By publishing these records online, findmypast.com is helping to open up new avenues of research for family historians worldwide from the comfort of their own home."
Over the coming months findmypast.com will be adding parish baptism records to the website too.
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