FamilySearch Updates for England

On Monday FamilySearch issued a list of new and updated records for the week of 4 May 2020. It detailed the collections involved in the addition of 6 million new, free, historical records. Here's an extract of the result table detailing the English records.

Collection	Indexed Records	Comments
England, Cumbria Parish Registers, 1538-1990	221,041	Added indexed records to an existing collection
England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971	48	Added indexed records to an existing collection
England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996	30,752	Added indexed records to an existing collection (Some Restrictions Apply)
England, Index to Register of Passport Applications, 1851-1903	376,488	New indexed records collection
England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920	22,249	Added indexed records to an existing collection
England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887	16,762	Added indexed records to an existing collection

Notice the collection, England, Index to Register of Passport Applications, 1851-1903, with the largest number of records is also the sole new one. Its index is from FindMyPast and includes the name and passport issuance date for individuals who applied for a British passport before they were mandatory for travel. Like all the other additions this week there are no associated images.

Two Irish additions this week are Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913 with 78 added indexed records to an existing collection; and Ireland, Medical Directory for Ireland, 1858 with 2,373 new indexed records.