Record revealed
Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
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Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers and Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths...
Catalogue reference: BT 334
What's it about?
BT 334
This series contains registers and indexes of births, deaths and marriages at sea maintained by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. For the period 1910-1918 there are also registers recording events specifically reported to one of the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 334
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers and Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Passengers and Seamen at Sea
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1891-1972
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registers and indexes of births, deaths and marriages at sea maintained by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. For the period 1910-1918 there are also registers recording events specifically reported to one of the national Registrars General of births and deaths.
The registers include both UK and foreign subjects, passengers and seamen. There is only one register for marriages. The registers contain some entries related to the deaths of seamen ashore.
The death registers include entries for the SS Titanic and Lusitania.
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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)
- Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 117 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3370/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers and Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Passengers and Seamen at Sea
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