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Series
General Register Office: Foreign Registers and Returns
Catalogue reference: RG 33
What's it about?
RG 33
The records include births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials abroad (but also including Lundy Island, Devon), 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 33
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Foreign Registers and Returns
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Date (When the record was created)
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1627-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records include births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials abroad (but also including Lundy Island, Devon), and on British as well as foreign ships of British subjects, nationals of the colonies, the Commonwealth and countries under British jurisdiction and some foreign nationals.
The series contains original registers, notebooks and copies of entries in registers kept by incumbents of English churches and missions, British embassies, legations and political agents; documents deposited for safe keeping, correspondence and memoranda. The material relates mostly to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but includes some for the seventeenth century concerning the English congregation at the Hague. It also includes a volume of marriages solemnised on board HM ships, 1842 to 1879, and a volume of events registered by British consuls prior to the Consular Marriages Act of 1849.
There are also two volumes compiled by the Colonial Office noting deaths from enemy action in the Far East, 1941 to 1945, and there is some material relating to protectorates, e.g. Malaya, Palestine, Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Wei Hai Wei.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The volume numbers quoted in the RG 43 indexes are former references, which should be converted to current RG 33 piece numbers by reference to the numbers in the former reference field.
Baptismal notices are bound in 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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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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163 files and volumes
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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
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- 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/C13358/
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: Foreign Registers and Returns
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