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Series
Mauritius: Registrar General: Registers of Births
Catalogue reference: CO 1068
What's it about?
CO 1068
This series contains the birth registers kept by the Registrar General in the British dependency of Mauritius in 1921 and 1922.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 1068
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Title (The name of the record)
- Mauritius: Registrar General: Registers of Births
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1921-1922
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the birth registers kept by the Registrar General in the British dependency of Mauritius in 1921 and 1922.
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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 and French
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Mauritius, Registrar General, 1870-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2005 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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
- Africa
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- It is not usual for registers of birth to be returned to the UK from British dependencies, and the reason why these two registers were passed to the Colonial Office at or before Mauritian independence in 1968 is no longer clear. It is believed that these registers do not duplicate records held locally in Mauritius, and they are the only surviving registers of births in Mauritius to have been returned to the UK.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16301/
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