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Foreign Office: Chief Clerk's Department and Passport Office: Collection of Passports
Catalogue reference: FO 655
What's it about?
FO 655
This series contains a collection illustrating the many different types of passport issued. It includes some passports issued in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by Foreign Missions in this country to British subjects wishing to...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 655
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Chief Clerk's Department and Passport Office: Collection of Passports
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Date (When the record was created)
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1802-1961
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a collection illustrating the many different types of passport issued. It includes some passports issued in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by Foreign Missions in this country to British subjects wishing to travel abroad. Up to 1898 the passports are in the form of single sheets folded in four: thereafter (until 1923, when the modern book form was introduced) in eight-page folded books.
The search register of passport applications for 1851-1856, 1858-1862 and 1874-1903 has been digitised by an external company unassociated with The National Archives and are searchable through their website.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign Office, Chief Clerks Department, 1782-1900
- Foreign Office, Passport Office, 1855-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2098 papers and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The practice of foreign countries issuing passports to the nationals of other countries ceased in 1858.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7956/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
689,247 records
Within the department: FO
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