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Series
War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Ionian Islands, Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 136
What's it about?
CO 136
This series relates to the Ionian Islands and includes the original correspondence and entry books of the Secretary of State, sessional papers, government gazettes and blue books of statistics. It also contains local records for the islands up to...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 136
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Title (The name of the record)
- War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Ionian Islands, Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1802-1873
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series relates to the Ionian Islands and includes the original correspondence and entry books of the Secretary of State, sessional papers, government gazettes and blue books of statistics. It also contains local records for the islands up to 1864, including commissioners' papers (with separate volumes for Cephalonia [Kefallinía], Cerigo [Kíthira], Corfu [Kérkira], Ithaca [Itháki], Paxo [Paxí], Santa Maura [Lefkas] and Zante [Zákinthos] for the period 1861-1864), commissioners' letter books, revenue and expenditure accounts, residents' papers and letter books for Cephalonia, Cerigo and Paxo, and the papers of the Parga Indemnity Commission.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement of these documents is chronological within separate categories for original correspondence, entry books of correspondence, acts, sessional papers, government gazettes, miscellanea, local records, and blue books. In addition there are some case volumes.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For Foreign Office records relating to Greece, 1827-1905, see FO 32
For later records about the Order of St. Michael and St. George see CO 447
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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 and Italian
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1433 volume(s)
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers of this correspondence from 1849 see CO 350. For earlier registers see under 'Mediterranean' in CO 326. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714.
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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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After rule by various other colonial powers (since 1800 they had been a Russo-Turkish protectorate), the Ionian Islands were occupied by Britain in 1809-1810 and made a protectorate in 1814. In 1864 Britain ceded the islands to Greece.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4327/
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