Catalogue description Navy Board, Navy Pay Office, and Admiralty, Accountant General's Department: Registers of Seamen's Wills

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Reference: ADM 142
Title: Navy Board, Navy Pay Office, and Admiralty, Accountant General's Department: Registers of Seamen's Wills
Description:

These volumes are registers of seamen's wills. In addition to giving the date of death of the seaman, the first 14 volumes also contain the name, address and relationship of the executor or administrator of the will.

Records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm.

Note: These records were previously available on microfilm in the open reading rooms at Kew; the microfilms have now been removed (November 2008) as part of the Digital Microfilm project and copies are available online (please see link in the Scope and Content field).
Date: 1786-1909
Arrangement:

Arranged alphabetically in two series, covering 1786 to 1861 and 1862 to 1909.

Related material:

These registers provide an index to ADM 48

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Admiralty, Accountant General's Department, 1832-1932

Navy Pay Office, 1546-1835

Physical description: 19 volume(s)
Access conditions: Available in digital format

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