25 October 2020

Welsh Anglican BMBs online

There's been a rush of Welsh Anglican baptism, marriage (and Banns), and burial records online this week.

As of 22 October Ancestry lists the following 14,657,428 Welsh Anglican transcript records as newly available.

TitleDate RangeRecords
Anglesey1547-1994765,279
Brecknockshire1538-1994613,664
Caernarvonshire1541-1994800,329
Cardiganshire1633-1993627,649
Carmarthenshire1560-19941,086,426
Denbighshire1538-19941,657,612
Flintshire1538-19941,368,531
Glamorganshire1570-19942,949,196
Merionethshire1568-1994510,239
Monmouthshire1551-19941,805,836
Montgomeryshire1569-19941,205,155
Pembrokeshire1599-1994981,931
Radnorshire1538-1994285,581

As of the same date, MyHeritage lists new availability of transcript records of:

Wales, Parish Births and Baptisms, 8,242,549 records
Wales, Parish Marriages and Banns, 3,480,047 records
Wales, Parish Deaths and Burials, 3,149,924 records.

That's 14,872,520 records in total.

On 23 October The Genealogist announced the release of "8 million Parish Records, listing over 14.5 million individuals, with images of the original registers."


Findmypast had Welsh parish records online much earlier, both transcripts and images. They don't include the more recent years from the other companies.

BaptismsMarriagesBurialsTotal
Anglesey228,93898,048179,929506,915
Breconshire116,307123,035125,592364,934
Caernarvonshire234,02496,635197,385528,044
Cardiganshire128,749115,359164,717408,825
Carmarthenshire208,173225,802210,393644,368
Denbighshire342,444228,937396,796968,177
Flintshire287,781177,536274,812740,129
Glamorganshire564,882120,443459,8371,145,162
Merionethshire117,57960,717125,047303,343
Monmouthshire353,598304,441374,3121,032,351
Montgomeryshire481,497237,302402,4161,121,215
Pembrokeshire200,040170,426179,602550,068
Radnorshire61,39438,65552,227152,276
     
Total3,325,4061,997,3363,143,0658,465,807

FamilySearch has a transcript version of the Findmypast collection.

Don't overlook the transcripts at FreeReg which might include nonconformist BMB events.


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