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Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Lisbon, Portugal: Letter Books and Registers...
Catalogue reference: FO 173
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FO 173
This series contains records of the British embassy and consulate in Lisbon, Portugal. Comprises letter books, 1809 to 1872, and a register of marriage notices of the consulate general in Lisbon, 1859 to 1876, together with a minute book of the...
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FO 173
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Lisbon, Portugal: Letter Books and Registers of Marriage
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Date (When the record was created)
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1809-1949
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the British embassy and consulate in Lisbon, Portugal. Comprises letter books, 1809 to 1872, and a register of marriage notices of the consulate general in Lisbon, 1859 to 1876, together with a minute book of the British factory there, 1811 to 1824; and specimen papers dealing with questions of nationality, 1939 and 1944.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Correspondence for the period 1877-1938 does not appear to have survived.
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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)
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- Foreign Office, Consulate, Lisbon, Portugal, 1800-1968
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Portugal, 1800-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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26 files and volumes
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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/C7487/
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