UK, Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths From British Consulates, 1810-1968
Source Information
Ancestry.com. UK, Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths From British Consulates, 1810-1968 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.Original data: Various Registers of the Foreign Office. FO 114, 149, 155, 161, 170, 173, 207, 208, 211, 214, 218, 220, 221, 267, 322, 331, 339, 345, 359, 387, 397, 398, 399, 441, 445, 446, 451, 510, 516, 521, 526, 529, 581, 586, 601, 609, 634, 653, 664-666, 675, 681, 683, 687, 700, 706, 707, 714, 715, 717-722, 724-734, 744, 753-756, 769, 778, 783, 786, 797, 799, 803, 870-875, 878, 885, 907, 911, 920. The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey, England.
About UK, Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths From British Consulates, 1810-1968
This collection consists of over 300 various registers from the UK Foreign Office, mostly of births, deaths and marriages recorded at overseas locations. The embassy and consular records of the Foreign Office contain information that was returned annually to the General Register Office. The registers reveal all kinds of clues about the lives led by those living in close-knit British communities abroad.The collection is particularly rich in marriage records, with despatches to certificates of marriages abroad providing names of the parties involved, general correspondence and circulars on consular marriages and acknowledgements of receipt of certificates by the Bishop of London's Registry. The collection also includes a few other miscellaneous registers from the Foreign Office, of passports, interments, wills, deeds, declarations, oaths, and consular notarial acts.
