Series
Home Office: Coroners Burials and Cremation: Transporting of Dead Bodies (CBC series)
Catalogue reference: HO 638
What's it about?
HO 638
This series contains records related to Coroners burial practices and cremation, repartriation of human remains from overseas, and overseas burials.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 638
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Coroners Burials and Cremation: Transporting of Dead Bodies (CBC series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1979-2002
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records related to Coroners burial practices and cremation, repartriation of human remains from overseas, and overseas burials.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Records are arranged in date order.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- CBC
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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)
- Home Office, 1782-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2024 Ministry of Justice
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Files created by the Coroners Office under the Home Office. In 2007, the function and the records were transferred to the Ministry of Justice.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Coroner Business Unit was formerly under the Home Office and transferred to the Ministry of Justice in 2007. The Coroners Business Unit created and are responsible for the records in this series. The Office of the Coroner was formally established in 1194, originally as a form of tax gatherer. In the centuries since, this function has evolved and now the role of the Coroner is to investigate deaths if there are reasons to suspect that: a death was violent or unnatural; or the cause of death is unknown; or the deceased died while in state detention. In exceptionally high-profile cases or for other legal reasons, a judge may be appointed to hold an inquest into a death, with the information being recorded in the sections on judge-led inquests. The Chief Coroner heads the Coroner service in England and Wales, a role that was created under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19182216/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Home Office: Coroners Burials and Cremation: Transporting of Dead Bodies (CBC series)