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Series
General Register Office: Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in...
Catalogue reference: RG 36
What's it about?
RG 36
Notifications forwarded by officials responsible for civil registration under administrative ordinances in Nyasaland, Kenya, Somaliland, Uganda, Sudan, Palestine, Sarawak, Malaya, including Johore and Selangor, and British North Borneo,...
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 36
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Protectorates etc of Africa and Asia
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Date (When the record was created)
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1895-1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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Notifications forwarded by officials responsible for civil registration under administrative ordinances in Nyasaland, Kenya, Somaliland, Uganda, Sudan, Palestine, Sarawak, Malaya, including Johore and Selangor, and British North Borneo, commencing at varying dates.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Some earlier returns from the East African territories in the period during which they were under Foreign Office control are in the consular registers retained in the custody of the registrar general.
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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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15 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
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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
- Asia
- Population
- Middle East
- Census
- Africa
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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/C13361/
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General Register Office: Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Protectorates etc of Africa and Asia
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