Division within CO1814-1927Records of Emigration Departments
Records of Emigration Departments relating to emigration from Britain to the colonies.
Records of the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia, the agent general for emigration, the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission and the Emigration Commission are in CO 386. Correspondence of the Emigration Department and earlier Colonial Office correspondence relating to emigration is in CO 384, with registers from 1850 in CO 428. Entry books of out-letters relating to emigration to 1871 are in CO 385, with registers of out-letters from 1872 in CO 485. Some registers of correspondence relating to emigration to British North America are in CO 327. Correspondence of the Oversea Settlement Department is in CO 721, with registers in CO 791 and CO 792