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Series
Paymaster General's Office: Naval Pensions, etc
Catalogue reference: PMG 71
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PMG 71
Pensions to retired commissioned officers granted at the discretion of the Admiralty in addition to half pay. From 1879 a number of pensions and gratuities, mainly to seamen and marines abroad, are entered in these volumes.
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- PMG 71
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Title (The name of the record)
- Paymaster General's Office: Naval Pensions, etc
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1846-1921
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Description (What the record is about)
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Pensions to retired commissioned officers granted at the discretion of the Admiralty in addition to half pay. From 1879 a number of pensions and gratuities, mainly to seamen and marines abroad, are entered in these volumes.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- PMG 21
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 volume(s)
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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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Pensions to retired commissioned officers granted at the discretion of the Admiralty in addition to half pay were styled 'Greenwich Out-Pensions' until 1865 and then called 'Naval Pensions'.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11727/
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