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Series
Foreign Office and predecessor: Embassy, Consulate and Legation, Denmark: General...
Catalogue reference: FO 211
What's it about?
FO 211
This series contains registers of correspondence of the British embassy, legation and consulate in Denmark. Includes a volume of marriage affidavits, 1853 to 1870.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 211
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and predecessor: Embassy, Consulate and Legation, Denmark: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1781-1957
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registers of correspondence of the British embassy, legation and consulate in Denmark. Includes a volume of marriage affidavits, 1853 to 1870.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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By year and (where applicable) by original file number. The item-level catalogue references reflect these file numbers and hence gaps occur in the sequence.
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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
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign Office, Consulate, Denmark, 1782-1968
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Denmark, 1782-1968
- Foreign Office, Legation, Denmark, 1782-1968
- Northern Department, Consulate, Denmark, 1780-1782
- Northern Department, Embassy, Denmark, 1781-1782
- Northern Department, Legation, Denmark, 1780-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 847 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The British mission was withdrawn from Denmark from 1940 to 1945.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7525/
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