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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from...

    This series contains records of the Prisoners of War and Aliens Department, and is one of the series of Foreign Office records arising from, and employing, the FO central registry system for correspondence for the period from 1906. The records in FO …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1915-1919
    Reference
    FO 383
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office and predecessors: Engineers Muster Books and Pay Lists

    This series comprises muster books and pay lists of regiments. It provides a comprehensive means of establishing dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death. The first entry may show age on enlistment. An entry on t…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1816-1878
    Reference
    WO 11
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Advocate General: Entry Books of Opinions and High Court of Admiralty, Instance Court:...

    Entry books of the advocate general (1798-1834) relating to admiralty, probate, ecclesiastical and matrimonial causes, and to the rights of Britons overseas, with some opinions given jointly with the attorney general and solicitor general; together w…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1798-1857
    Reference
    PRO 30/28
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office: Registers of Clandestine Marriages and of Baptisms in the...

    Principally registers, 1667-c1777 (with some indexes, 1698-1754) and note books, 1682-1774, giving particulars of clandestine marriages and baptisms performed in the Fleet Prison, at the May Fair Chapel, at King's Bench Prison or within the Mint, as …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1667-c1777
    Reference
    RG 7
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Supreme Court of Judicature: Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Supreme Court...

    The records comprise indexes and accounts relating to Admiralty suits. Investments and payments from incapacitated or deceased ex-naval personnel to their dependants managed by the Court of Chancery.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1883-1979
    Reference
    J 344
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Registrar of the High Court of Delegates: Processes

    Copies of proceedings in civilian courts in connection with the hearing by the High Court of Delegates of appeals from their sentences. The majority of the appeals relate to testamentary and matrimonial causes from the ecclesiastical courts, and to m…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1609-1834
    Reference
    DEL 1
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Home Office: Marriage Matters in England and Wales (MAR Symbol Series)

    This series contains records related to general marriage matters, the registration of buildings for religious marriage, and prohibited degrees of relationships. Includes the Marriage (Registrar General Licence) Act 1970 and representations from Super…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1980-1990
    Reference
    HO 399
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Registered files of the Validity of Marriage Unit and its Successors

    Registered files of the Validation of Marriage Unit. Includes advice and guidance for adjudication and appeal officers, where marital status has to be ratified for benefit entitlement.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1949-2006
    Reference
    BN 144
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office: Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of...

    Registers of births, deaths, burials and marriages of congregations of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England and Wales. A number of original birth and burial notes and original marriage certificates are included. There is also a bookl…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1578-1841
    Reference
    RG 6
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    Series

    West India Relief Commissioners: Mortgage Indentures

    These records of the West India Relief Commission are mortgage indentures, made out to the Crown, used as securities against loans granted by the commissioners.They include supporting schedules of slaves, inventories of estates, and proof of ownershi…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1767-1845
    Reference
    PWLB 11
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office and successors: Statistics Division and successors: Primary...

    Information in the Primary Births datasets includes the date and location of the registration of birth, where the birth occurred, the sex of the child, whether born inside or outside of marriage, date of birth, and number of births in cases of multip…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1953-1999
    Reference
    RG 71
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records created or inherited by the Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General's...

    Records relating to litigation services undertaken for Government Departments and on behalf of the Monarch, including judicial and revenue matters, conveyancing, matrimonial issues, maritime law, company law and bankruptcy, etc.The papers of the Trea…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1483-2008
    Reference
    TS
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    Series

    Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Printed Cases in Indian and Colonial Appeals...

    This series contains: 'Printed Cases in Indian and Colonial Appeals' (1792 to 1878), including appeals from the Crown Dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man); 'Printed Papers in Appeals' (1873 to 2008). The latter are a continuation of…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1792-2008
    Reference
    PCAP 6
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    Series

    General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Establishment...

    A selected sample of General Register Office correspondence with the Treasury, Ministry of Health and other Government Departments, the Industrial Court, Civil Service Clerical Association, local Registrars of Births, Deaths and Marriages and individ…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1836-2003
    Reference
    RG 20
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: Artillery Muster Books and Pay...

    This series comprises muster books and pay lists of regiments. It provides a comprehensive means of establishing dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death. The first entry may show age on enlistment. An entry on t…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1708-1878
    Reference
    WO 10
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Special Collections: Deeds: Crown Grants

    Original letters patent vesting in trustees the fee-farm rents reserved on Crown grants, and indentures concerning the jointure of Catherine of Braganza, consort of Charles II. Most of the documents are decorated with engraved or illuminated portrait…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1670-1720
    Reference
    SC 4
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations:...

    Depositions of witnesses in causes heard by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury or, during the Commonwealth period, the Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations.The depositions were taken by officials at the Court's registry and were t…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1657-1809
    Reference
    PROB 24
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Rolls Chapel: Records and Artefacts

    This series consists of a register or memorandum book of occasional baptisms (1837 and 1860-1892), marriages (1736-1749) and burials (1738-1826) conducted in the Rolls Chapel, with some original marriage licences.It is likely that earlier records wer…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1736-1892
    Reference
    PRO 30/21
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    Series

    Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Selected War Pensions...

    This series contains personal case files on disablement pensions arising from service in the Army or Navy before the First World War and case files concerning widows of such servicemen.The files contain medical records (in some cases including X-rays…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1854-1979
    Reference
    PIN 71
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and...

    Records of the General Register Office (GRO), Office of National Statistics (ONS), Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys relating to the registration of births, marriages and deaths and the collection of i…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1567-2022
    Reference
    RG

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