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Series
General Register Office and successors: Seals and Letters Patent
Catalogue reference: RG 80
What's it about?
RG 80
This series contains the Seals of the Letter Patent created for General Register Office to carry out the business of civil registration.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RG 80
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office and successors: Seals and Letters Patent
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1837-1857
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the Seals of the Letter Patent created for General Register Office to carry out the business of civil registration.
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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)
- General Register Office, 1836-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3 flat sheet(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 2008 Office for National Statistics
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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
- Census
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Records held by General Register Office and successors.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16615/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
206,531 records
Within the department: RG
Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and...
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General Register Office and successors: Seals and Letters Patent
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