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Series
War Office: Officers' Birth Certificates, Wills and Personal Papers
Catalogue reference: WO 42
What's it about?
WO 42
Certificates of birth, baptism, marriage and death, with wills, administrations, statements of services and personal papers of officers and their families, in cases where the officer died on service or on half pay and his widow applied for a...
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 42
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Officers' Birth Certificates, Wills and Personal Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1755-1908
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Description (What the record is about)
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Certificates of birth, baptism, marriage and death, with wills, administrations, statements of services and personal papers of officers and their families, in cases where the officer died on service or on half pay and his widow applied for a pension, or application was made for a child's compassionate allowance.
Most of these were formerly among papers now in WO 43. Eight bundles of similar certificates, 1755 to 1908, have been added from other series.
This series originally comprised 73 bundles. In June 2013, two pieces were added at the end to link to some digitised indexes: WO 42/74 contains the index for the volumes in WO 42/1 -51; WO 42/75 contains the index for 42/52-65.
Records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Mostly arranged alphabetically, 1776 to 1881.
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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)
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- Secretary-at-War, 1660-1855
- War Department, 1855-1857
- War Office, 1857-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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75 bundles and papers
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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 only
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14251/
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