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Catalogue reference: CO 111/554
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This record is about the Correspondence received from offices (government departments and other organisations)... dating from 1906 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara, and.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 111/554
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Date (When the record was created)
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1906
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence received from offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on subjects concerning British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:
Offices:
- Foreign Office (Venezuelan-Brazilian boundary, arrest of C P Lloyd in San Domingo, Venezuelan boundary, Free State of Counani, Brazil and Dutch Guiana boundary, British Guiana boundary prints);
- Home Office (convict Makundi, criminal lunatics);
- India Office (mortality on migrant ship May);
- Law Officers (case of Eliza Jones);
- Medical Adviser (David Smith, Dr R B T Stephenson, A G W Choppin);
- Parliament (riot at Georgetown, Crown Agents monopoly);
- Board of Trade (pilotage ordinance);
- New Colonial Company (situation in colony);
- British Cotton Growing Association (cotton cultivation);
- General Post Office (money order exchange with Danish West Indies);
- Local Government Board (sale of food and drugs amendment ordnance);
- London School of Tropical Medicine (general and infantile mortality);
- British Guiana Rubber Corporation Limited (position of company, rubber concession);
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (general and infantile mortality);
- Colonial Office (British Guiana Rubber Corporation Limited);
- Medical Officer of Health, Battersea (infantile mortality).
Individuals:
- Captain A C B Alexander (death of A H Alexander);
- G B Allen (development of Essequebo);
- J Blackmore (normal and agricultural master);
- C J Bosch Reitz (district immigration agent, his case);
- E G Chamberlain (termination of appointment);
- D Clarke (pension claim, allowance for home service);
- J H de Jonge (publication of private letter);
- Sir H K Davson (recent riots);
- J W Gordon (E A Burgess' memorial);
- W Gray (normal and agricultural master);
- D S Garraway (promotion);
- Harold E Hay (immigration ordinance, obligation of residence);
- Sir F M Hodgson (J H de Jonge, magistrate, Georgetown);
- Denham G Hyder (D Hutson);
- Rufus Isaacs (case of Eliza Jones);
- Lawrence Jones & Co (British Guiana Rubber Company);
- Colonel S G Lushington (case of Dr J M Rohlehr, Captain G Smith, District Inspector of Police);
- C E Moss (normal and agricultural master);
- Moreland Macandrew & Co (rubber concession);
- H R Reichal (normal and agricultural master);
- Dr John Monteith Rohlehr (application for permanent employment, permanent medical appointment in Colony);
- Simpson & Co (railway concession);
- J Steele (spirit industry);
- David Milan Smith (pension);
- Skewes, Cox, Nash & Co (pension claim of D Clarke, case of D Clarke);
- Sandbach Tinne & Co (threatened strike at wharves, the situation);
- Templer Down and Miller (rubber concession to G S Pitcairn);
- Thompson and Hunter (natural gas and petroleum in British Guiana, alleged discovery of oil);
- H S Williams (administration of the colony);
- Professor Robert Wallace (normal and agricultural master).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C344976/
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CO 111
Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara, and...
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