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Series
Foreign Office: Various Consulates, China: Registers of Deeds
Catalogue reference: FO 679
What's it about?
FO 679
This series contains registers of deeds from the following British consulates in China: Amoy, Chefoo, Chungking, Foochow, Nanking and Chinkiang, Tientsin, Tsingtao and Wei-hai-wei.
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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FO 679
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Various Consulates, China: Registers of Deeds
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Date (When the record was created)
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1853-1953
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registers of deeds from the following British consulates in China: Amoy, Chefoo, Chungking, Foochow, Nanking and Chinkiang, Tientsin, Tsingtao and Wei-hai-wei.
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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, Amoy, China, 1834-1959
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Chefoo, China, 1837-1959
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Chinkiang, China, 1837-1959
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Foochow, China, 1842-1959
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Nangking, China, 1914-1959
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Tientsin, China, 1860-1941
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Tsingtao, China, 1933-1941
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Weihaiwai, China, 1853-1953
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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20 volume(s)
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
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Additional safe handling procedures are in place. Records must be ordered in advance.
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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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- Topics
- International
- Asia
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7980/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
689,247 records
Within the department: FO
Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office
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Foreign Office: Various Consulates, China: Registers of Deeds
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