Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger...

Description and record details

Reference	BT 26
Title	Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists
Date	1878-1960
Description	Passenger lists of people arriving in the United Kingdom by sea kept by the Board of Trade's Commercial and Statistical Department and its successors. The information given in these lists includes the age, occupation, address in the United Kingdom and the date of entering the country of passengers entering the United Kingdom by sea from ports outside Europe and the Mediterranean. Electronic images of these records can be searched online through our partner website.
Arrangement	These lists are arranged under the names of the ports of arrival. Descriptions are available at item level.
Related material	For registers see BT 32
Separated material	With a few exceptions lists before 1890 have not survived.
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	Board of Trade, Commercial and Statistical Department, 1872-1886 Board of Trade, Commercial, Labour and Statistical Department, 1895-1916 Board of Trade, Statistical Department, 1918-1945 Board of Trade, Statistics Division, 1945-1970
Physical description	1476 box(es)
Access conditions	Available in digital format unless otherwise stated
Unpublished finding aids	Lists of ships for a particular month by landing port are available at TNA, Kew.

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