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Madras Military Fund

Catalogue reference: IOR/L/AG/23/10

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This record is about the Madras Military Fund dating from 1808-1960s.

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Reference
IOR/L/AG/23/10
Title
Madras Military Fund
Date
1808-1960s
Description

The records comprise rolls of subscribers and of their wives and children; reports on the administration of the Fund; registers of pensioners and pension payments; certificates of birth, marriage and death for subscribers and their families; authorities for payments of individual pensions and miscellaneous payments in the UK. Number IOR/L/AG/23/10/3 was not used.

Related material

For accounts of the Fund 1818-1836, see IOR/L/AG/18/2/8-10. For receipts and payments in India 1837-1847, see IOR/L/AG/18/2/35. For pension payment books (UK and Europe) 1842-1968, see IOR/L/AG/21/30, and see also IOR/L/AG/21/29.

Held by
British Library: Asian and African Studies
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
23 volumes and bundles
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Unrestricted

Administrative / biographical background

The Madras Military Fund was established in 1808 and closed to new subscribers in 1862. It applied to regular officers and chaplains of the Madras Army and provided pensions for their dependents. It was optional for Madras medical officers up to 1847. On the officer's death, pensions were provided for his widow and legitimate children. Sons benefited until their twenty-first birthday, and daughters until they married. Daughters who were widowed or divorced were often re-admitted to the Fund.

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