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Indexes to seamen's names (BT 154/4-6)
The Board of Trade managed the records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and its predecessor, the General Register and Record Office of Seamen which was in operation from 1835 to 1872.
The files in DocumentsOnline contain indexes to the registers of merchant seamen's names for the period 1860 - 1867. (The full BT 154 series of indexes covers the period 1852-1889.) The indexes are used to locate the records of receipt of dead sailors' wages and effects, or their proceeds. They are ordered by year and within each year, by surname. They give the page and column reference and include the name of the ship.
The seamen's documents were passed to Shipping Masters by the masters of British ships under the Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act 1851 and they are filed in the series BT 153 (not available online).
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Indexes to seamen's names (BT 154/4-6)
The Board of Trade managed the records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and its predecessor, the General Register and Record Office of Seamen which was in operation from 1835 to 1872.
The files in DocumentsOnline contain indexes to the registers of merchant seamen's names for the period 1860 - 1867. (The full BT 154 series of indexes covers the period 1852-1889.) The indexes are used to locate the records of receipt of dead sailors' wages and effects, or their proceeds. They are ordered by year and within each year, by surname. They give the page and column reference and include the name of the ship.
The seamen's documents were passed to Shipping Masters by the masters of British ships under the Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act 1851 and they are filed in the series BT 153 (not available online).
The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Search Results
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