Record revealed
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: Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages of Passengers...
Catalogue reference: BT 158
What's it about?
BT 158
This series consists of registers compiled from ships' official logs of births, deaths and marriages of passengers at sea by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and its predecessor. Electronic images of these records can be searched...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 158
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages of Passengers at Sea
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Date (When the record was created)
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1854-1890
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registers compiled from ships' official logs of births, deaths and marriages of passengers at sea by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and its predecessor.
Electronic images of these records can be searched online through our partner website.
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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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- General Register and Record Office of Seamen, 1835-1872
- Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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9 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 only
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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
- Shipping
- Population
- 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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Under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1874 deaths at sea were reported to the Registrar General, who then reported them to the Registrars General of England, Scotland or Ireland as appropriate.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3196/
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages of Passengers at Sea
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