Cardiff and London new (old) books

In the past month, British History Online has released

• Matthews's Cardiff Records (in five volumes),
• very detailed (1:2,500 scale = 25 inches to the mile) early Ordnance Survey maps of 16 British cities, and
• three more volumes of the Survey of London.

Meanwhile Archive CD Books has released Robinson's

• The History and Antiquities of Hackney,
• The History and Antiquities of Tottenham High Cross,
• The History and Antiquities of Stoke Newington,
• The History and Antiquities of Edmonton, and
• The History and Antiquities of Enfield,

published between 1818 and 1845. See ACDB's London History page.

FreeBMD October update

On October 12th, FreeBMD added 1.8 million new entries: a million births, 300 thousand marriages, and 500 thousand deaths. Here are the top three quarters by number of new entries:

• births: 1869 Q4, 1865 Q3, 1868 Q3
• marriages: 1914 Q4, 1915 Q4, 1871 Q4
• deaths: 1913 Q1, 1861 Q4, 1861 Q3

For more details see the updated coverage charts.

FreeCEN October update

FreeCEN was updated on October 6th, with new census records from Caithness (1851), the Channel Islands (1861), Cornwall (1851 and 1871 and 1881), Devon (1861), Dumfriesshire (1841), County Durham (1861), Fife (1841), Hampshire (1861 and 1891), Invernessshire (1851), Lincolnshire (1861), Midlothian (1841), Morayshire (1851), Norfolk (1891), Ross and Cromarty (1841), Roxburghshire (1851), Staffordshire (1861 and 1891), Sussex (1891), Warwickshire (1861 and 1891), and Yorkshire (1861). The database now contains 8.5 million records. Completed counties include Angus, Argyllshire, Banffshire, Bute, Caithness, Cornwall, East Lothian, Kinrossshire, Nairn, Warwickshire, and Wigtownshire in 1841; Bute, East Lothian, and Nairn in 1851; Bute in 1861; and Bedfordshire, Cornwall, and Devon in 1891.