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Series
Royal Hospital Chelsea: Admission Books, Registers and Papers
Catalogue reference: WO 23
What's it about?
WO 23
The records in this series consist of registers, admission books, ledgers etc relating to army pensioners and the payment of pensions. Most, but by no means all, relate to pensions payable by the Commissioners of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, to...
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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WO 23
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Title (The name of the record)
- Royal Hospital Chelsea: Admission Books, Registers and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1702-1933
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series consist of registers, admission books, ledgers etc relating to army pensioners and the payment of pensions. Most, but by no means all, relate to pensions payable by the Commissioners of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, to either in-pensioners or out-pensioners
These class books give details by regiment of current pensioners, ages, lengths of service, dates of admission, complaints on admission, and places of current residence.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The records in this series have been arranged in four sections: out-pensioners, in-pensioners, officers and civilian employees.
In each section the records have been listed chronologically, not numerically by piece, although many parts overlap. Parts relating to particular categories such as foreign and colonial forces and ordnance troops are listed after the general parts. The volumes themselves are arranged in a number of different ways: alphabetically by name; by regiment; by rate or type of payment; and, often, by a mixture of all three.
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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)
- Royal Hospital Chelsea, 1682-1682
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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181 volume(s)
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Those registers which contain an index are noted in the piece description.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14232/
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