Colonial Office: Turks and Caicos Islands Original Correspondence

Description and record details

Reference	CO 301
Title	Colonial Office: Turks and Caicos Islands Original Correspondence
Date	1847-1882
Description	This series contains original correspondence relating to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Arrangement	Bound volumes arranged chronologically and generally within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations) and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). Each volume with a contents list, or précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter.
Related material	For earlier correspondence 1799-1848 see CO 23 For later correspondence after 1874 see CO 137
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Physical description	66 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids	For a registers to this correspondence see CO 495
Administrative/ biographical background	The Turks and Caicos Islands were a dependency of the British colony of Bahamas from 1799 until 1848 when they were given their own local government. In 1874 the islands became a dependency of Jamaica. In 1959 the Turks and Caicos Islands became a unit territory within the Federation of the West Indies. With the dissolution of the federation the islands became a Crown colony. From 1965 the governor of the Bahamas was also the governor of the Turks and Caicos, until 1973 when the islands were given their own governor.

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