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Series
General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Establishment...
Catalogue reference: RG 20
What's it about?
RG 20
A selected sample of General Register Office correspondence with the Treasury, Ministry of Health and other Government Departments, the Industrial Court, Civil Service Clerical Association, local Registrars of Births, Deaths and Marriages and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RG 20
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Establishment and Accounts Division: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1836-2003
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Description (What the record is about)
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A selected sample of General Register Office correspondence with the Treasury, Ministry of Health and other Government Departments, the Industrial Court, Civil Service Clerical Association, local Registrars of Births, Deaths and Marriages and individuals. The material relates to establishment and personnel matters, arbitration and awards for search officers, cost of services rendered to other government departments, GRO estimates and certain matters concerning the indexes of birth, death and marriage registers, including the evacuation of registers and indexes from London, 1939 to 1942. Other files concern injuries received by enumerators during the 1931 census period, also a proposal to remove the General Register Office from Somerset House.
The series also includes account books, 1836 to 1854, and certain papers, 1920 to 1946, kept by R J R Farrow, Deputy Registrar General (1942-1946), also staff organisation charts mainly from 1947.
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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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- General Register Office, Establishment and Accounts Division, 1836-1970
- Office for National Statistics, 1996-1996
- Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Establishment and Accounts Division, 1970-1996
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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333 files 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 unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Office for National Statistics
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13345/
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General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Establishment and Accounts Division: Correspondence and Papers
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