Catalogue description Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: Enrolments by Deposit, Board of Trade

Enrolments of deeds and instruments relating to the purchase, sale, lease and exchange of foreshores which, as Crown lands, were subject to the provisions for enrolment in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments.

These enrolments by deposit date from the period when the administration of foreshores had passed in 1866 from the Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues to the Board of Trade, where it was the responsibility of the Harbour Department until 1919 and of the Marine Department until 1939, when it passed to the Ministry of Shipping.

Reference to the enrolments in this series is by means of registers and indexes in

Further records on foreshores are in CRES 37

LRRO 64

LRRO 66

Board of Trade, Fisheries and Harbour Department, 1898-1904

Board of Trade, Harbour Department, 1867-1898

Board of Trade, Harbour Department, 1904-1918

Board of Trade, Marine Department, Harbour Department, 1864-1867

Board of Trade, Marine Department, Mercantile Marine Department, 1921-1939

Board of Trade, Public Utilities and Harbour Department, 1918-1919

Ministry of Shipping, 1939-1941

Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1851-1924

A card index of the names of parties to transactions after 1 July 1914 was compiled in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for the precise location.