Nourish your Norfolk roots with new and exclusive records

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By Jessie Ohara | December 2, 2022

Nourish your Norfolk roots with new and exclusive records

Explore 300,000 new records across two collections.

If you suspect you have roots in the county of Norfolk, this is a release you won't want to miss.

Norfolk Wills & Probate

This brand-new collection comprises over 257,000 records and spans 1301-1858, covering an incredible 557 years of history.

From the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, these records cover 14 Deaneries:

Blofield
Breccles
Brisley
Flegg (including Greater Yarmouth)
Holt
Ingworth
Lynn (including King's Lynn)
Lynn Marshland
Norwich
Sparham
Taverham
Thetford
Toftrees
Walsingham

In them, you'll find information such as name, year, residence, and title - which will often include their occupation and birthplace.

Norfolk Banns and Marriages

We've added over 65,000 records to this collection between 1702-1923.

Norfolk Cathedral, pictured in 1929, found in our Photo Collection.

These records offer vital information on your ancestor's marriage such as the year, parish, spouse's name, and often the father's name. This means you could uncover multiple generations with just one record.

The news goes global

In a Findmypast first, we've added four brand-new titles this week that were all published in Africa.

The Uganda Herald, 1940.

Though both the Uganda Herald and the East African Standard focused on local news such as sporting fixtures, schooling and theatre, the former had a tendency to publish British correspondence, and the latter more international headlines.

With both Uganda and Kenya being British colonies at the time of publication, these titles stood patriotic to White colonists during these years. However, the East African Standard became more balanced towards Ugandan independence from Britain in 1962.

The Natal Mercury, 1878.

Our two new South African titles, the Natal Mercury and the Natal Witness, follow a similar vein. Both were again founded by White colonists, though the former documented news within South African colonies and the latter was more anti-imperialist in its views. These papers are considered to be some of the oldest in South Africa, and still run today.

Amongst our other new and updated titles, you'll find two from Ireland and a specialist Catholic title. To search a specific paper, just head to our newspaper archive and filter by title.

New titles:

Bristol Week-End, 1963-1964
Catholic Times and Catholic Opinion, 1908
Chertsey & Addlestone Leader, 1997
East African Standard, 1934
Leicester Advertiser, 1984-1985
Midland Reporter and Westmeath Nationalist, 1928
Natal Mercury, 1878
Natal Witness, 1878
Post Green ‘un (Bristol), 1958-1959
Roscommon Herald, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1931, 1944, 1953
Rugeley Post, 1996-1997
Uganda Herald, 1940

Updated titles:

Accrington Observer and Times, 1914
Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser, 1897, 1925-1937, 1939-1944, 1947, 1949-1955, 1957, 1959-1972, 1974-1977
Aldershot News, 1954
Bedfordshire Times and Independent, 1961
Belper Express, 1997
Billingham & Norton Advertiser, 1996
Blackburn Times, 1913, 1920, 1929, 1933
Bradford Daily Telegraph, 1914
Brentwood Gazette, 1998
Bristol Evening Post, 1964-1965, 1971-1972, 1974, 1981
Buckinghamshire Examiner, 1943
Burntwood Mercury, 1996
Cambridge Daily News, 1970-1972
Canterbury Times, 1998
Caterham Mirror, 1994
Chelsea News and General Advertiser, 1995
Cheltenham News, 1997
Chester Chronicle, 1822-1824, 1880, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1890-1892, 1894-1896, 1899, 1906, 1910, 1922, 1931-1932, 1934, 1938, 1947, 1953, 1956, 1964-1972, 1975-1985
Daily Record, 1999
Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser, 1997
Dover Express, 1995, 1997-1998
Durham Chronicle, 1908, 1911
Esher News and Mail, 1938-1939, 1947-1950, 1953-1954, 1960, 1962-1965
Evening Despatch, 1907, 1950
Football Post (Nottingham), 1984, 1988
Formby Times, 1997
Harrow Informer, 1995
Hertfordshire Express and General Advertiser, 1919, 1927, 1929-1930, 1935
Hinckley Times, 1934
Hounslow & Chiswick Informer, 1994
Hull Daily Mail, 1967-1970
Ilfracombe Chronicle, 1873-1875
Irish Independent, 1974
Kensington News and West London Times, 1941
Lichfield Post, 1991
Lincoln Gazette., 1875
Liverpool Daily Post, 1930, 1932-1933, 1935-1937
Loughborough Mail, 1984-1985
Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle, 1927
Macclesfield Times, 1916, 1919-1924, 1926, 1930, 1932, 1934-1935, 1938, 1940-1942, 1944, 1946-1948, 1950
Maidstone Telegraph, 1963
Manchester Metro News, 1992, 1995
Middlesbrough Herald & Post, 1995, 1997
Middlesex County Times, 1873-1874
National Independent and People’s Advocate, 1889
Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 1921-1925, 1928-1937
North Wales Weekly News, 1998-1999
Nottingham & Long Eaton Topper, 1996, 1998
Nottingham Evening News, 1958, 1960, 1962
Nottingham Evening Post, 1977, 1998
Nottingham Guardian, 1959-1960, 1973
Oadby & Wigston Mail, 1984-1985
Ormskirk Advertiser, 1994
Ripley Express, 1996
Royston and Buntingford Mercury, 1997
Ruislip & Northwood Informer, 1997
Runcorn Guardian, 1940-1941, 1944-1947, 1949-1950, 1952, 1955-1957, 1960-1963, 1966, 1968-1970, 1972-1975, 1977-1981, 1983-1984
Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph, 1951, 1953-1954, 1957-1958, 1960, 1963-1964, 1973, 1976-1979, 1981, 1985-1988
Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser, 1998
Sevenoaks Focus, 1994, 1997
Southport Visiter, 1998
Stockton & Billingham Herald & Post, 1994-1995
Surrey Herald, 1997
Sutton Coldfield News, 1997
Ulster Echo, 1891
Uttoxeter Newsletter, 1996
Uxbridge Informer, 1998
Vale Advertiser, 1994
Walton & Weybridge Leader, 1996-1997
Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser, 1876
Wellingborough & Rushden Herald & Post, 1996-1997
Wembley Leader, 1994
Weston & Worle News, 1996
Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, 1997

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