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Series
General Register Office: Miscellaneous Foreign Returns
Catalogue reference: RG 32
What's it about?
RG 32
The series contains largely non-statutory records relating to births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials abroad, and on British as well as foreign ships, of British subjects, nationals of the colonies, the Commonwealth and countries under...
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 32
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Miscellaneous Foreign Returns
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Date (When the record was created)
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1831-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains largely non-statutory records relating to births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials abroad, and on British as well as foreign ships, of British subjects, nationals of the colonies, the Commonwealth and countries under British jurisdiction. Events affecting some foreign nationals are also included. Records consist mainly of certificates issued by foreign registration authorities, which are in local languages, and copies of entries kept by incumbents of English churches and missions, chaplains and burial authorities. It also contains documents sent by individuals to the Registrar General.
For the Second World War period some notifications of deaths of members of the services, prisoners of war, civilians, internees and deaths through aircraft lost in flight are included. Notifications of some post-war deaths of civilians in mining service are preserved. There is also material relating to the Channel Islands and a return for births on Lundy Island (Devon).
Electronic images of these records can be searched online through our partner website (excluding pieces 52-59).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Many of the volumes in this series also have modern integral indexes of place and event. Baptismal notices are bound in the volumes according to the years of such events, which are not necessarily the years of the related births. Neither is the date of birth always stated on these documents.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Duplicate registers retained by consulates are held in Foreign Office,
The records are indexed in RG 43
There are also considerable numbers of other sources of births, marriages and deaths of Britons overseas which are held in other record repositories; in particular the Guildhall and the Society of Genealogists.
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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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Miscellaneous
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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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59 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in digital format unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2001: Office for National Statistics
from 1977: General Register Office
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Additional information is also available in Geoffrey Yeo, 'The British Overseas, A Guide to Records of Their Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths and Burials Available in the United Kingdom', London, 2nd edn, 1988
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13357/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
206,531 records
Within the department: RG
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General Register Office: Miscellaneous Foreign Returns
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