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Series
Navy Board, and Admiralty, Accountant General's Department: Officers' and Civilians'...
Catalogue reference: ADM 45
What's it about?
ADM 45
Applications by executors or administrators, often next of kin, for the unpaid wages or pensions of deceased officers of the Navy and Royal Marines or their widows, and of civilian employees of the Navy and the Naval Dockyards. Some applications...
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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ADM 45
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Title (The name of the record)
- Navy Board, and Admiralty, Accountant General's Department: Officers' and Civilians' Effects Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1830-1860
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Description (What the record is about)
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Applications by executors or administrators, often next of kin, for the unpaid wages or pensions of deceased officers of the Navy and Royal Marines or their widows, and of civilian employees of the Navy and the Naval Dockyards. Some applications are supported by birth or marriage certificates or wills.
Records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm.
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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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- Board of Admiralty, Accountant General's Department, 1832-1932
- Navy Board, 1546-1832
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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39 bundle(s)
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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 unless otherwise stated
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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)
- There was a card index but this has now been superseded by the Catalogue
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1754/
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Within the department: ADM
Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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Navy Board, and Admiralty, Accountant General's Department: Officers' and Civilians' Effects Papers
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