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Series
Foreign Office: Chief Clerk's Department and Passport Office: Passport Registers...
Catalogue reference: FO 611
What's it about?
FO 611
This series contains indexes of names of passport holders, giving the serial number and date of issue of each passport. There are no indexes for the period 1863 to 1873. The search register of passport applications for 1851-1856, 1858-1862 and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 611
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Chief Clerk's Department and Passport Office: Passport Registers Indexes of Names
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Date (When the record was created)
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1851-1916
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains indexes of names of passport holders, giving the serial number and date of issue of each passport. There are no indexes for the period 1863 to 1873.
The search register of passport applications for 1851-1856, 1858-1862 and 1874-1903 has been digitised by an external company unassociated with The National Archives and are available through their website there may be a fee to access these records.
Records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The indexes to names of passport holders for 1857 (all) and 1858 (A-G) are missing.
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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, Chief Clerks Department, 1782-1900
- Foreign Office, Passport Office, 1855-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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25 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in digital format 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7912/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: FO
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Foreign Office: Chief Clerk's Department and Passport Office: Passport Registers Indexes of Names
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