Piece
Transferred to ADM 1/8998
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/8766/75
Transferred to ADM 1/8998
Sub-sub-series
REGISTER OFFICE
Catalogue reference: Sub-sub-series within ADM 1
What's it about?
Sub-sub-series within ADM 1
ADM 1/3997 consists of reports to the Admiralty from the Office established by the 1696 Register Act to register merchant seamen for naval service, 1696-1699, and from the Navy Board, 1699-1702, winding up the Register Office's residual business...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Sub-sub-series within ADM 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- REGISTER OFFICE
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1696-1839
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Description (What the record is about)
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ADM 1/3997 consists of reports to the Admiralty from the Office established by the 1696 Register Act to register merchant seamen for naval service, 1696-1699, and from the Navy Board, 1699-1702, winding up the Register Office's residual business after its transfer to Greenwich Hospital in 1699, plus the residual business of the Sick and Hurt Board transferred to the Register Office, 1698. There is also correspondence from the Sixpenny Office, 1704-1715. ADM 1/3998 contains reports from the General Register Office of Merchant Seamen established by the 1835 Merchant Shipping Act, and transferred to the Board of Trade in 1850.
When using the ADM 12 indexes to search for papers in ADM 1, documents in this sub-sub-series have the reference: 'Register off.'
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C150945/
Series information
ADM 1
Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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REGISTER OFFICE
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