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Foreign Office: Consulate, Smyrna, Turkey (formerly Ottoman Empire): Consular Court...
Catalogue reference: FO 626
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FO 626
This series contains consular court files from the British consulate in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. Comprises judicial files with numerical and alphabetical indexes, and a collection of deposited documents (with descriptive list) which include...
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FO 626
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Consulate, Smyrna, Turkey (formerly Ottoman Empire): Consular Court Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1820-1929
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains consular court files from the British consulate in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. Comprises judicial files with numerical and alphabetical indexes, and a collection of deposited documents (with descriptive list) which include several wills, some as yet with unbroken seals.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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, Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, 1793-1923
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Smyrna, Turkey, 1923-1941
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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29 box(es)
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- Topics
- International
- Middle East
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Persons claiming to be 'interested parties' were sometimes, with the approval of the Foreign Office, given access to documents while they were still closed to public access. Deposited documents required for probate purposes would, on authorisation of the Foreign Office and by direction of the Lord Chancellor, be handed over to the appropriate court.
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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 Smyrna Consular Court was presided over by the Consul assisted by a Law Clerk. The Court tried both civil and criminal actions and functioned as a Naval Court of Enquiry (investigating mercantile marine mishaps) and a Probate Registry, granting Letters of Administration; it also dealt with proceedings in Bankruptcy. Unsuccessful litigants were sometimes granted the right of Appeal to the Supreme Consular Court at Constantinople.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7927/
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