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Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Register of Seamen, Series III
Catalogue reference: BT 116
What's it about?
BT 116
Registers, kept by the General Registry and Record Office of Seamen, of all British merchant seamen from the discontinuation of the Registry Tickets to the abandonment of the separate Register. The new register recorded the men's age and...
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BT 116
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Register of Seamen, Series III
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Date (When the record was created)
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1853-1857
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registers, kept by the General Registry and Record Office of Seamen, of all British merchant seamen from the discontinuation of the Registry Tickets to the abandonment of the separate Register.
The new register recorded the men's age and birthplace, with details of their voyages in which the ship's name and the port of departure are easily found.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Alphabetical.
Names such as Mc Carthy and Mc Nab have been entered in the registers under the initial of the second element of the surname. For example Mc Carthy will be found under 'C' and Mc Nab under 'N'.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- General Register and Record Office of Seamen, 1835-1872
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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106 volume(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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- Topics
- Merchant seaman
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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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When the Register Ticket system was discontinued in 1853, the Registrar General returned to registering seamen from crew list returns. The earlier difficulties in maintaining a register were again encountered, and in 1856 the Board of Trade decided that their obligation to keep a register of seamen would be fulfilled simply by keeping the Crew Lists.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3157/
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