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East India Company and Colonial Office and Predecessor: St. Helena Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 247
What's it about?
CO 247
This series contains original correspondence relating to St Helena. Also includes correspondence relating to Ascension.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CO 247
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Title (The name of the record)
- East India Company and Colonial Office and Predecessor: St. Helena Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1805-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains original correspondence relating to St Helena. Also includes correspondence relating to Ascension.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Bound volumes arranged chronologically within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations) and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). Each volume with a contents list, or précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. From 1926 correspondence is arranged in subject files.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further correspondence see WO 1/321-322 and 569-571.
For earlier records relating to Ascension see CO 749
For records after 1951 see CO 1024
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Further records are among those of the East India Company held by the British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections.
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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)
- East India Company, 1600-1858
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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261 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers to this correspondence before 1849 see CO 326 under Africa, after 1849 see CO 366. For a register to 1926 correspondence see CO 356/28
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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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With the exception of the period of Napoleon's imprisonment (1815-1821), St. Helena was administered by the East India Company from 1659, when the company occupied the island, until 1833 when it was brought under direct British government. Ascension was made a dependency of St Helena in 1922, and Tristan da Cunha in 1938.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4438/
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