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Royal Hospital Chelsea: Returns of Payment of Army and Other Pensions
Catalogue reference: WO 22
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WO 22
Periodical returns of pensions paid or payable by the Royal Hospital Chelsea, bound up in volumes and arranged under the various districts in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, etc, and in India, the Colonies and certain foreign stations. They...
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- WO 22
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Title (The name of the record)
- Royal Hospital Chelsea: Returns of Payment of Army and Other Pensions
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1842-1883
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Description (What the record is about)
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Periodical returns of pensions paid or payable by the Royal Hospital Chelsea, bound up in volumes and arranged under the various districts in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, etc, and in India, the Colonies and certain foreign stations. They include returns of out-pensioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals, of those belonging to the East India Company, and of mercantile marine pensioners; also annual mortality returns showing the number of deaths at different ages.
In addition to the statistical information which these returns supply they are useful for tracing changes of residence and dates of death of individual pensioners.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Royal Hospital Chelsea, 1682-1682
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 300 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
- Microfilm copies of some records in this series were created as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (1948-1997). The microfilm images have been digitised and made available online by the National Library of Australia.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14231/
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