Forum: Newspapers and Magazines

I am having difficulty in browsing the site. I am looking for a specific Notice in Issue #58535. The message I get is that this site cannot be displayed:hang: I S.K.S. can assist, I'll forward details by private message. Thanks

There are some really useful search tips in the Help section of the 19th Century British Library Newspapers site. Some of these are widely used in other search engines (such as using quotation marks to search for an exact phrase, or using wildcards). Others are perhaps less familiar but...

Can any one give me information on the Globe, it is mentioned in the 1911 census.The paper is in London, maybe Clapham / Battersea area? Wallyrator.

What are the chances of me being able to find details of an accident in which my gran's mother, Margaret Clark MacGregor nee Millar, sustained injuries from which she never recovered? Up to now I've never had much luck searching the online newspaper archive, and this may be a rather obscure...

http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives Wow! A proper hotch-potch, various places, various time spans, some free, some not. Some we know about, some we'd never dreamt of. :biggrin: Pam

Hi, I'm trying to locate whichever news papers might have been available in Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Scotland. William Craig died 1899 in Kilmaurs - his death record states that he had "Died along the highway between Crosshouse and Kelk Place, Kilmausr, Ayrshire, Scotland" - I'm hoping to be able to...

Hi Folks Can anyone tell me if it is possible to search 20th Centuary British Newpapers online and how you go about this? many thanks Richard

Good morning All , our ancestor leonard alexander crossle . b.1863 Ireland. on the 1901 census he was a sub editor for a newspaper in the london area , how can i find out which one . also with ref to Ireland , how can i find out where he was born and his parents ? any help or a point in...

Can anyone tell me which newspapers covered Co. Mayo during 1830/40's? Am looking for coverage of a trial in January 1837. All I know is it was in Co. Mayo. Any suggestions gratefully received. Thanks. Jeddah.

Hi I was wondering if anyone knows which newspaper was covering the Blackburn area in 1961 and whether the newspaper are online anywhere. I have two ancestors who both died in the same quarter in 1961 and was wondering where I could look for the death notices. Thanks in advance Kirstie

The Shamrock was a paper published in New York, New York in the early 1800's giving the Irish there a bit of news from home... mostly of marriages and deaths. I have been reading exerts and several gave me a chuckle... especially this marriage in the Sat. Dec. 29, 1810 edition.. Sue

Hi Would someone have any idea how to obtain a copy of the newspaper report (if indeed it appeared in the newspaper) of a relative whose inquest into their death was held 19th May 1966?

William J HAYWARD born 1908 Portsea, Hants. age 17 years. Emigrated to Quebec as part of Salvation Army immigration in August 1925. Died Brandon, Manitoba, December 1925. His body was shipped back to his parents EDWARD GEORGE and ANNIE HAYWARD in Portsmouth. Does anyone know where...

As a baby I was ill and was in The Duchess of York hospital,Manchester. My mother told me about my illness and said it had been written about in the Lancet! Never thought much about it until now and as my mother is no longer with us I asked another relative who confirms this! I have had a look at...

Hello. Could anyone let me know if there was any newspaper coverage of a motorcycle accident which resulted in the the death of EDWARD CHARLES HOOPER, aged 19. He was the pillion passenger and was struck by a van driven by WILLIAM PHILIP STRIPE. The bike was being ridden by ALFRED ARCHIBALD BIRCH....

Hello I am wondering if anyone knows of the name of any newspapers around the Northampton area about 1820 (1818 to be exact) that would have court notices in them, trying to trace a convict William Shepherd. Thanks Colin

The Bristol Mercury reported a number of marriages on 12 September 1846. One was this. Sept. 5, at Bitton, Jeremiah Gribble, age 16, to Elizabeth Churchill, age 45, mother of nine children. Well, I have a Jeremiah Gribble in my tree and he married Elizabeth Houselander on 15 Nov 1846. As far...

hi what local newspaper would have been in use during 1929 in the greenwich,kent area . iam trying to find if there was a report or orbituary on a relative .john h reed aged 7yrs who died in tragic circumstances. dean

HI CAN ANYONE HELP ME iM LOOKING FOR A GLASGOW NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ON JOHN FENTON WHO DROWNED IN THE RIVER CLYDE 13 APRIL 1920 ANY HELP APPRECIATED THANKS

Hi I am hoping to find a funeral notice or obit for my husbands Gt Grandfather...We have been trying to find out where he was buried/cremated but have had no luck...Have tried all cemeteries and most churchyards near to where he was living...He was Norfolk born and bred.. He was Daniel Parker...