IMMIGRATION    (Emigration follows below)
 

Immigrants: Documents In The Public Record Office
  Records Information Leaflet No. 70
    Chancery Miscellanea (C 47)
    Exchequer Extents of Alien Priories, etc (E 106)
    Exchequer Subsidy Rolls (E 179)
    Exchequer Accounts Various (E 101)
    Naturalization and Denization (see Kew Lists HO 1 Index)
    State Papers, Domestic, Edward VI (SP 10), Mary (SP 11) and Elizabeth (SP 12 and 13)
    State Papers, Domestic, James I (SP 14), Addenda (SP 15), Charles I (SP 16),
                                            Interregnum (SP 18) and Charles II (SP 29 and 30)
    Non-Parochial Registers (RG 4)
    Treasury In-Letters (T 1)
    State Papers Foreign, Holland (SP 84)
    Bouillon Papers (HO 69); Privy Council Unbound Papers  (PC 1), Foreign Office
           Miscellanea, Series I (FO 95) and amongst War Office In-Letters (WO  1)
    Chancery Original Denizations (C 97), 1751 to 1793
    Certificates of Aliens (HO 2), 1836-1852
    Aliens Act, 1836: Returns and Papers (HO 3), 1836-1869
    Entry Books (HO 5), 1794-1909
    Registered Files (HO 45)
    Registers of Passenger Lists (BT 32)
 
Family Fact Sheet from PRO

 

EMIGRATION

 

Emigrants: Documents In The Public Record Office
  Records Information Leaflet

Emigrants to North America after 1776

    Privy Council Registers 1540-1978 (PC 2) see also PC1
    Plantation Books 1678-1806 (PC 5/1-16)
    Treasury Board papers 1557-1920 (T1)
    Treasury general out-letter books 1668-1920 (T 27); Minute books 1667-1870 (T 29 and T 99);
          King's Warrants 1667-1857 (T 52); Warrants relating to money 1676-1839 (T 53);
          Warrants not  relating to money 1667-1849 (T 54) and Order books 1667-1831 (T 60)
    Chancery patent rolls (C 66)
    Audit Office declared accounts 1779-1827 (AO 1) (American Loyalists)
    Declared  Accounts (in books) 1803-1848 (AO 2) (American Loyalists)
    Assize records 1559-1972 (ASSI 1-80)
    Admiralty medical journals (ADM 101) include those of emigrant ships 1815-1853
    Registers,  various (ADM 6) include registers of convicts on ships, 1819-1834
    Transport Department records  (ADM 108 and MT 23) transport of military forces 1773-1917
    Colonial Office emigration original correspondence 1817-1896 (CO 384)
    Land and Emigration Commission papers 1833-1894 (CO 386)
    Colonies general, Original Correspondence (CO 323) and Entry Books (CO 324 and CO 381)
    Ministry of Health Poor Law Union papers 1834-1890 (MH 12)
    General Board of Health and the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners 1853-4 is in MH
        13/252 and 1836-1876 in MH 19/22.
    Foreign Office passport registers 1795-1898 (FO 610) Indexed in FO 611
    Board of Trade passenger lists, outwards 1890-1960 (BT 27)
    Registers of passenger lists 1906-1951 (BT 32)
    Information Leaflet 23
    index to American Loyalist claimants from the Minute books of the Claims Commission (T 79)
    West New Jersey Society records 1675-1921 (TS 12)
    whole section on Australia/New Zealand
 
Family Fact Sheet from PRO
 

Other resources described in PRO Leaflets:

Records Of The American And West Indian Colonies Before 1782
      Records Information Leaflet No. 23
The Records Of The Colonial And Dominions Offices From 1782
      Records Information Leaflet No. 86
Records of the Foreign Office from 1782
      Records Information Leaflet No. 22
Land Grants In America And American Loyalists' Claims
      Records Information Leaflet No. 34
The American Revolution: Guides And Lists To Documents In The Public Record Office
      Records Information Leaflet No. 33

For transported "criminals", see
Information Leaflet 26 on
assizes
Information Leaflet 94 on
Australian convicts
Records Guide on Transportees to America & West Indies 

For full list of leaflets, click here.

Genuki connection, UK, Ireland, Scotland
 Example:
Devon

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