Catalogue description Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Wages and Effects of Deceased Seamen

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Reference: BT 153
Title: Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Wages and Effects of Deceased Seamen
Description:

This series contains registers of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen containing entries of the receipt of dead sailors' wages and effects, or their proceeds, handed to Shipping Masters by the masters of British ships under the Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act 1851.

Date: 1852-1889
Related material:

See:

BT 154

BT 155

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

General Register and Record Office of Seamen, 1835-1872

Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992

Physical description: 22 volume(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Unpublished finding aids:

Indexes for this series are in BT 154 and BT 155

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