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Series
General Register Office: Letter Books
Catalogue reference: RG 29
What's it about?
RG 29
This series contains General Register Office letterbooks, including the Registrar General's private letter book, Treasury letters, correspondence relating to the 1891 Census and Local Government Board volumes.
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 29
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Letter Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1836-1920
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains General Register Office letterbooks, including the Registrar General's private letter book, Treasury letters, correspondence relating to the 1891 Census and Local Government Board volumes.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Papers relating to Local Government Board papers are in MH 19
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The series is incomplete as neither the inward letters for the 1891 Census nor letter books for previous or later censuses to 1911 appear to have survived. The Local Government Board volumes are an incomplete series containing inward letters 1887 to 1909 and outward letters 1889 to 1902
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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)
- General Register Office, 1836-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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24 volume(s)
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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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- Topics
- Census
- Local Government
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13354/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
206,531 records
Within the department: RG
Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and...
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General Register Office: Letter Books
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