Over five million parish records have recently been made available online.
The subscription/pay-per-view website FamilyRelatives has announced the release of a database of historical parish registers from many counties of England (and one each from Wales and Scotland) dating from the early 1500s to the middle to late 19th century, and covers the following parishes:
Berkshire
- Bisham 1560-1812
Cheshire
- Upton in Overchurch 1600-1812
- Holy Undivided Trinity Chester 1532-1837
Essex
- Beaumont 1564-1670
- Waltham Holy Cross, Waltham Abbey
Lancashire
- Cathedral Church of Manchester 1573-1655
- Bolton 1573-1660
- St Thomas Upholland 1600-1735
- Garstang 1660-1734
- Lancaster 1599-1690
- Eccles Lancaster 1564-1632
- Earliest Registers of the Parish of Liverpool 1660-1704
London
- Temple Church 1628-1853
- St Michael Cornhill 1546
- St Paul’s Covent Garden 1653-1853
- Chapel of the Holy Trinity Knightsbridge 1658-1681
Nottinghamshire
- Headon 1566-1812
- Shelton 1595-1812
- Walesby 1580-1792
Shropshire
- Alberbury 1564-1812
- Oswestry 1669-1750
- Wrockwardine 1591-1812
Suffolk
- Bury St. Edmunds St James 1562-1800
- Shotley Registers & Tombstones 1571-1850
- Timworth 1565-1716
Surrey
- Beddington 1538-1673
- Gatton & Sanderstead
- Godalming 1582-1688
- Stoke D’Abernon 1619-1812
- Wimbledon 1534-1812
Warwickshire
- Stratford-on-Avon 1558-1652
Yorkshire
- Chapel of Austerfield 1559-1812
- Danby-in-Cleveland 1585-1812
- Terrington 1600-1812
- Howden 1543-1702 1725-1770
- Cherry Burton 1561-1740
- Brantingham 1653-1812
- Hackness 1557-1783
- Linton In Craven 1779-1812
- Rillington 1638-1812
- Settrington 1559-1812
- Burton Fleming 1538-1812
- All Saints, Easingwold 1599-1812
- Wintringham 1558 to 1812
- Whitby 1600-1676
- St Andrew’s Keighley 1562-1735
- Kildwick-in-Craven Vol.1 1575-1789
- Monk Fryston 1538-1678
- Ingleby Greenhow 1539-1800
Wales
- Grosmont (Monmouthshire) 1589-1812
Scotland
- Diocesan Synod of Dunblane (Perthshire) 1662-1688
I find the Online parish Clerks (OPC) such as : http://www.opcdorset.org/ really useful
I signed up (cost 35 euro) to FamilyRelatives.com to get the Waltham Holy Cross,/Waltham Abbey parish registers (which I had been seeking for some time). I found that it was a descriptive account of the records, not the actual parish registers (subsequently identified as a 1880s book by Williams Winters – already available online elsewhere for free). Within a couple of hours of payment I sent an email requesting cancellation – repeated a week later. No reply. The parent company (Treequest) has an address in Jersey (presumably a mail-box address), with a phone number which rings out.
Please Mr Robert Woods (PR Manager for Treequest) when you read this – respond.
Hi Roy
You can view images of the baptisms, marriages and burials for the church of Holy Cross and St Lawrence at Waltham Abbey from 1563-1713 free of charge at Seax – Essex Ancestors Online http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/displayParishContents.asp. The Essex Record Office says it’s “currently exploring options to make more of these records available digitally.”
Best regards
Alan
Hi Alan,
Thank you for that great link. I have been to the SEAX catalogue many times, but did not know there were online images. I can start searching backwards – from early to later – I will have to wait ’till they make post-1713 available. Unfortunately, I am not in England, and rarely would have a chance to get to Essex.
Thank you again.
Roy