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General Register Office: Miscellaneous Foreign Death Returns
Catalogue reference: RG 35
What's it about?
RG 35
This series contains death certificates issued by foreign registration authorities and churches, copies of entries in the registers kept by British embassies, incumbents of English churches and chaplains, notification of marriages of servicemen...
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 35
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Miscellaneous Foreign Death Returns
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Date (When the record was created)
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1830-1921
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains death certificates issued by foreign registration authorities and churches, copies of entries in the registers kept by British embassies, incumbents of English churches and chaplains, notification of marriages of servicemen during service abroad, and documents deposited for safekeeping. They include an incomplete collection of certificates of British military deaths in France and Belgium, 1914 to 1921, issued by the registration authorities of those countries.
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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,
Copies of further registers of the British military deaths, compiled by the War Office, remain with the General Register Office. 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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69 papers 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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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/C13360/
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General Register Office: Miscellaneous Foreign Death Returns
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