The subscription/pay-per-view website Ancestry.co.uk has added criminal registers, Indian directories and a clerical directory to its online databases.
Ancestry.co.uk has recently added:
- Criminal registers of England and Wales 1791-1892. The database consists of records from The National Archives collections HO 26 and HO 27. These are court records, and not all those listed were found guilty.
- The East India Register and Directory 1844 contains lists of military officers and civil servants of the East India Company in the Bengal, Bombay and Madras Presidencies.
- Thacker’s Indian Directory 1895 includes an alphabetical list of residents in the cities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras and “throughout the Indian Empire”, and much more.
- Crockford’s Clerical Directories published in 1868, 1874, 1885, 1898, 1908 and 1932. The directories contain biograpies of Anglican clergymen in the UK.
