War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Ionian Islands, Original Correspondence

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.

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.

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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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.